{"id":3549,"date":"2011-03-31T22:02:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T22:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennytrout.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/31\/shower-with-the-allman-brothers"},"modified":"2011-03-31T22:02:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T22:02:00","slug":"shower-with-the-allman-brothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/?p=3549","title":{"rendered":"Shower with The Allman Brothers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few moments ago\u2013 literally, moments\u2013 I was in the bathtub, listening to my <a href=\"http:\/\/pandora.com\/\">Pandora Radio<\/a> &#8220;Allman Brothers\/Willie Nelson&#8221; combo station (if you really let that sink in, I won&#8217;t have to explain that this is another &#8220;Jen gets high&#8221; stories&#8221;) when &#8220;Jessica&#8221; by The Allman Brothers came on.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>If you don&#8217;t watch Top Gear, I have to tell you right now that this is going to be about %60 percent less funny. But anyway, the theme to Top Gear is &#8220;Jessica&#8221;, or a synthed up version of it, anyway. Sitting in my tub, I started laughing. Then I noticed it was echoey, so I put on my best Jeremy Clarkson voice and said, &#8220;Tonight! Richard Hammond sucks his own cock! I get arrested soliciting a prostitute, and James dies in an autoerotic asphyxia accident!&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The fact that I laughed out loud, or &#8220;Loled&#8221; as they say in the parlance of our time, got me thinking. How often are my characters laughing per book.  I know that if you opened Ashes To Ashes and threw a dart in it, you&#8217;d hit somebody crying.  But I wonder how many times I just lazily throw that verb at the page because I needed to tag some dialogue to keep it from becoming a screenplay.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Moreover, what are other really repetitive things I write? I have writer friends who I can guarantee certain phrases will pop up in everything they write. I&#8217;ve read authors who repeat the exact same descriptions in every single book of their series. Everyone has their own voice, and sometimes that voice echoes itself.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Reader, what are some often repeated phrases of your favorite authors? Is there any particular phrase of mine that you&#8217;ve noticed, or that you wish I would stop using? Is there anything you find repeated over and over in your own writing?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few moments ago\u2013 literally, moments\u2013 I was in the bathtub, listening to my Pandora Radio &#8220;Allman Brothers\/Willie Nelson&#8221; combo station (if you really&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/?p=3549\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Shower with The Allman Brothers<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3549"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}