Words are important

[ratherastory]

Dear fanfic writers:

peak: noun. 1. the pointed top of a mountain or ridge.
2. a mountain with a pointed summit.
3. the pointed top of anything.
4. the highest or most important point or level: the peak of her political career.
5. the maximum point, degree, or volume of anything: Oil prices reached their peak last year.

peek: verb. 1. to look or glance quickly or furtively, esp. through a small opening or from a concealed location; peep; peer.
noun. 2. a quick or furtive look or glance; peep.

pique: verb. 1. to affect with sharp irritation and resentment, esp. by some wound to pride: She was greatly piqued when they refused her invitation.
2. to wound (the pride, vanity, etc.).
3. to excite (interest, curiosity, etc.): Her curiosity was piqued by the gossip.
4. to arouse an emotion or provoke to action: to pique someone to answer a challenge.
noun. 5. a feeling of irritation or resentment, as from a wound to pride or self-esteem: to be in a pique.


PLEASE TO BE LEARNING THESE WORDS AND USING THEM CORRECTLY. YOU ARE DRIVING ME NUTS!

Comments

[callistosh65.livejournal.com]

The one I see *all* the time, and from very good writers, is the lie/lay mess. Dean ain't gonna lay on the bed unless he's doing it in past tense. He lays *something* on the bed in present tense - his gun, his weary head, etc. But if it's just him and it's present tense, he lies on the bed.

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Yes, THIS.

Although I am given to understand that there is some idiomatic leeway on lie/lay.