He Did What?
I just finished a YA novel and it was an interesting read. Except one thing bugged me. It was a little thing, a tiny thing even. But it jumped out at me and clobbered me over the head. And I swear I came across it three separate times in the book.
What was this tiny annoyance? It was this peculiar descriptive action I’ve never noticed in a book before. The descriptive action had a character doing this: sanding his hands together.
It stopped me short in my reading. Well, okay, that’s unusual, it brings to mind a carton villain, but I could get past it. The first time. But the second? Then the third?
I enjoyed the book for the most part, but for me this is now the book where the guy sands his hands together. It’s made the biggest impression on me. Can you overuse a quirky description or action or is it just me? I suspect it’s an individual response.
Do these types of tiny details ever take over a story for you?
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