silence like a bomb?
Oh, Lord. I didn't think the similes in this "romance" book could get much worse or more convoluted or more, well, mindless. Bad is one thing, jaded is one thing, but meaningless is quite another.
I was naively wrong. That's me, always thinking the best of people.
"... a silence as loud as the gunfire crashed like a bomb."
I feel like a rabbit in headlights.
(suricattus, if it makes you feel better, this is for a publisher for whom you don't write back copy.)
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EDITED TO ADD:
I'm getting punch-drunk on this stuff:
"The tension in the barn was as tight as a miser's wallet."
Worse yet, this author apparently thinks hyphens are for sissies. Not just in adjectival forms, but in standard words that have hyphens -- at least, in the normal universe of Merriam-Webster (and no, not words that can be debated; we're talking really standardized spelling). And the wrong words, missing words, missing and wrong punctuation, inconsistencies of character names ... I've been accepting this from the beginning as just part of the usual job, but with the Similes from Hell alongside the bad writing and spelling, it's getting tiring. And this is a Rush job. Oh, joy. I'll be at this all night tonight.
Oh, by the way, according to the production editor, this is a known author who "is known to hand in clean manuscripts." Oh, really?
Note: We clean up this shit for no credit, and for this we only get scorn.
I was naively wrong. That's me, always thinking the best of people.
"... a silence as loud as the gunfire crashed like a bomb."
I feel like a rabbit in headlights.
(suricattus, if it makes you feel better, this is for a publisher for whom you don't write back copy.)
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EDITED TO ADD:
I'm getting punch-drunk on this stuff:
"The tension in the barn was as tight as a miser's wallet."
Worse yet, this author apparently thinks hyphens are for sissies. Not just in adjectival forms, but in standard words that have hyphens -- at least, in the normal universe of Merriam-Webster (and no, not words that can be debated; we're talking really standardized spelling). And the wrong words, missing words, missing and wrong punctuation, inconsistencies of character names ... I've been accepting this from the beginning as just part of the usual job, but with the Similes from Hell alongside the bad writing and spelling, it's getting tiring. And this is a Rush job. Oh, joy. I'll be at this all night tonight.
Oh, by the way, according to the production editor, this is a known author who "is known to hand in clean manuscripts." Oh, really?
Note: We clean up this shit for no credit, and for this we only get scorn.