I’m currently reading The Duke and I and the author is constantly using the word “acerbic”. I had never heard of the word before now and had to google the definition. The word has shown up so much that I’m tempted to go through the book and count its appearances lol.
Have you noticed any authors having favorite words that they use page after page?
In The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon he talks about the sound of her urine twice. How does an editor miss that?
He talks about it in The Stand too, talking about the old woman using the bathroom, and how ar her age it just falls out of you. It was a very uncomfortable passage…
He mentions urination a lot. Someone wets their pants at least once in most of his books.