When Copyediting Attacks
May. 2nd, 2006 02:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tanaiseIn a previous draft of the romance novel I am reading now, I will bet that the girl says "I've told you a million times before, I really don't like that name." Because the guy says, "Yes but I really do." Only someone changed what she said from "don't like" to "hate."
It doesn't change what she's saying, really, but kinda...breaks his snappy retort. It went from snappy and flirtatous to like, lame random comment. I read it the first time, and I was just standing there going over it in my head--"I really hate that name," "yes, but I really do"?I mean, granted, it's more likely that *I* would come up with the second one were I flirting (I tend to plan my flirting out a little too far in advance sometimes and get stuck and can't change when they answer 'wrong'), but I think maybe romance novels should not be true-to-my-life.
It doesn't change what she's saying, really, but kinda...breaks his snappy retort. It went from snappy and flirtatous to like, lame random comment. I read it the first time, and I was just standing there going over it in my head--"I really hate that name," "yes, but I really do"?I mean, granted, it's more likely that *I* would come up with the second one were I flirting (I tend to plan my flirting out a little too far in advance sometimes and get stuck and can't change when they answer 'wrong'), but I think maybe romance novels should not be true-to-my-life.
