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Ok, so I am the first to admit that I’m not a super technical writer yet. But there are certain things I read which make me stop in my tracks and put a book down, unable to read another word until I figure out what the hell the author meant. Today’s example is, “His nostrils twitched and he gave her a long moment to absorb that by leaving, he was getting what he wanted. He wasn’t obeying.”<\/p>\n
It was the fact that his nostrils\u00a0twitched,\u00a0<\/em>of all things. The online definitions of twitch is: “give or cause to give a short, sudden jerking or convulsive movement.” I understand that muscles twitch – as in, I went for a long run and at the end my muscles twitched in protest<\/em>. And I guess the muscles in your nose could do the same. But if you think about it, doesn’t that just seem weird? It’s as if the hero has a sneeze waiting to happen but it never does? Or does your mind suddenly remember Tabatha in the old television show\u00a0Bewitched<\/em>? Maybe he’s going to cast a spell because he left his magic wand at home.\u00a0I’d rather a muscle in his jawline twitched, or an eyebrow twitched up in astonishment, but his nostrils? Dude – get a Kleenex, you’re about to blow. And you look silly.<\/p>\n Maybe if I was having a different kind of day, this wouldn’t have bothered me as much. But because it did, twitching nostrils became my random writing rant of the day.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ok, so I am the first to admit that I’m not a super technical writer yet. But there are certain things I read which make me stop in my tracks and put a book down, unable to read another word until I figure out what the hell the author meant. Today’s example is, “His nostrils…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-writing-rants"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":28,"label":"Writing Rants"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/ryleykennedy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Profile-of-Serious-Young-Man-Thinking-Deep.jpg",660,665,false],"author_info":{"display_name":"Ryley Kennedy","author_link":"https:\/\/ryleykennedy.com\/index.php\/author\/ryleykennedy\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":28,"name":"Writing Rants","slug":"writing-rants","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":28,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":3,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":28,"category_count":3,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Writing Rants","category_nicename":"writing-rants","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryleykennedy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryleykennedy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryleykennedy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryleykennedy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryleykennedy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ryleykennedy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryleykennedy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryleykennedy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryleykennedy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryleykennedy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}