She bit her bottom lip...

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Why do authors do this?? I read a lot and I've noticed it more and more. Apparently it's a way of making a woman seem aroused/scared/sexy

I can honestly say I've never bit my lip when I've wanted to be aroused/scared/sexy.

Aibu? Also what other well used "phrases make you cringe?

What colours are we selecting from the nipple colour chart? Candy pink, dusky rose, or earthy brown ( to be fair on looker was a farming bod ).

@DemelzaPoldarksshinerrefiner , don't forget puckered, sensitive, buds etc.

Thanks, @gilchrist168. I'll save it for lunchtime reading.

I know its not what you read but what you see - when hero/heroine keep pushing glasses up there nose in the middle - get yourself new glasses or go to specsavers & have them fitted properly! By the way if this man's head kept snapping backwards I think the heroine needs to call an ambulance.

Hang on a minute, I’ve missed something here – who’s Marjorie? Is Tarquin cheating on Helena????

• sorry, sheathing his pulsating member in someone else’s core??

wictional he's a polygamist :)

I remember we were reading Coram Boy in year nine and there was a stage direction that said “her blood ran cold”

A variation on ‘I’m Mandy by the way’ is when characters refer to each other by their full names. It seems quite common in Irish chick lit ‘Mairead O’Sullivan!’ Bronagh was shocked.

And for some reason in the third ‘Me Before You’ instalment pretty much everyone she comes across refers to her as ‘Louisa Clark’ when in conversation with her, including her bloody boyfriends.

The higher end version of pushing babies into the world seems to be rags like OK refer to Z-Listers and their partner ‘welcoming’ a new baby. It seems even clunkier when it’s from some time ago ‘in 2011 Towie star X and ex championship footballer Y welcomed baby Isabella’ or similar

I bite my lip when I'm in pain or concentrating, ergo my female MC does too. No sexy lip biting through.

Rowling is really bad for writing in lots of lip curling and raised eyebrows and sneering. And the bad guys are always unattractive in some way. And then she had the gall to say she imagined Alan Rickman as Snape long before the films happened. Nah, you based him on your chemistry teacher who was a bit bemused by the whole thing.

I just googled J K Rowlings chemistry teacher and I’m torn between thing he was hot and thinking he looked like a serial killer.

I think the chemistry teacher is hot. He looks quite friendly in the pictures. I would.

My bugbear is all the jumping hearts. Hearts that thump against chests, drop into stomachs, leap into throats. Hearts that throb so loud others can hear, that jump violently, that stop suddenly. These poor characters with their very poorly hearts :(

All this is very useful, as a writer

I am so pleased that curiosity made me click on this thread.

I am now humming tunelessly, my hands clasped around a coffee cup, as I survey the ripped silken panties discarded on the floor of my loft apartment and my aching body recalls the night of passion I shared with the dark eyed stranger whose flashing eyes had bored into mine then raked up and down my body until I felt naked under my skimpy Versace gown as I sipped my glass of champagne. It was not what I had expected when my best friend from college had forced me to accompany her to the opening night of an exhibition at her up and coming gallery where I worked following my recent breakup from my long term boyfriend ............

Anyway, enough about my heyday ........ Thanks for all the rippling , tinkling laughs folks.off to sink into a deep bath of rose scented bubbles where I can languorously soap my long , slim, bronzed legs and check my nipples on the nipple colour chart.

User and Rocket Have I started something here? Maybe we should start the John Nettleship Appreciation Society?

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I can't stop laughing now, I think I need to go for a lie down.

This is making me wonder if I shall ever let my story see the light of day, people have read it and enjoyed it (and one of my friends actually cried while reading it!) but I'm still not sure about getting it published. I'm going to damn well finish it though, I've been working on it for 15 years (since I was 15, incidentally. It's improved somewhat though! Thank goodness.)

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there was a stage direction that said “her blood ran cold”

Up yours, Shakespeare!

I just googled J K Rowlings chemistry teacher and I’m torn between thing he was hot and thinking he looked like a serial killer.

Serial killer. Definitely.

Oh God, Rowling writing romantic feelings was the worst! I seem to recall a creature in Harry's chest when he was thinking about Ginny in book 6...sounded like something out of Alien. And there were a lot of swooping feelings in stomachs and suchlike.