Tom & Alissa

From the NYTimes Paper Cuts blog:
Seven Deadly Words of Book Reviewing, and I think this goes for film reviewing as well. I plead guilty, though I do think and hope I’ve used most of these in their intended context.

muse (used as a verb): Few things in this world are mused. They are much more often simply written, thought or said. “War is hell,” he mused. Not much dreamy rumination there.

Stretching for the fanciful — writing “he crafts or pens” instead of “he writes”; writing “he muses” instead of “he says or thinks” — is a sure tip-off of weak writing.