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Question: when writing, do you ever borrow phrases or discriptions that other authors used in their writing because you like the wording so much? If so, do you feel guilty about it?
I'm asking because I just read the discription "A muscle in his jaw twitched" and I love it because it describes exactly what I'm trying to say. It would have never occured to me to write it that way, though. So now I'm torn whether or not to use it myself.
(Not a ground-breaking dilemma, I know. I'm just curious to know whether you guys ever feel that way too.)
ETA: to clarify--the example above is of course just a fact being stated. Still, I wouldn't have thought of wording it that way. I would have said it differently. And I feel bad about using wordings that aren't mine :)
I'm asking because I just read the discription "A muscle in his jaw twitched" and I love it because it describes exactly what I'm trying to say. It would have never occured to me to write it that way, though. So now I'm torn whether or not to use it myself.
(Not a ground-breaking dilemma, I know. I'm just curious to know whether you guys ever feel that way too.)
ETA: to clarify--the example above is of course just a fact being stated. Still, I wouldn't have thought of wording it that way. I would have said it differently. And I feel bad about using wordings that aren't mine :)
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