RosieRad:
Padraig:
The cynic in me makes me wonder if the use of smack, smack, smack, at every smack, is a way of increasing the word count?
Generally speaking, there's no incentive to increase the word count, so I doubt it.
Like RosieRad, my challenge is to keep my word counts
down, so there is no incentive to pad a story.
Padraig:
smack, smack, smack,
In my book, "smack, smack, smack" is onomatopoeia, not cliche. In general, unless I'm specifically describing a sound to the reader, it has no place in my own writing. As a reader, I tend to roll my eyes and then skim over it.