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re: How to beat an idea to death

Posted by: ryhog 11:11 am EST 11/21/14
In reply to: re: How to beat an idea to death - AC126748 11:00 am EST 11/21/14

I had the same reaction. I think everyone has pet ideas, expressions and the like, and I think everyone who writes at length recycles them. This seems to me just another round of Brantley-bashing. Not that I think you can't bash him sometimes, and for good reason, but I wonder why the OP has not cataloged the ideas Shaw (and not that Brantley has earned the right to be compared to him) beat to death.


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re: How to beat an idea to death

Posted by: LHarry (lharry@ibj.com) 10:10 am EST 11/22/14
In reply to: re: How to beat an idea to death - ryhog 11:11 am EST 11/21/14

Agreed. Let's not assume that a prolific journalist remembers exactly what he or she wrote in every piece. It's possible--very possible--to recycle ideas that one has forgotten were even cycled in the first place.


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re: How to beat an idea to death

Posted by: LegitOnce 10:50 am EST 11/22/14
In reply to: re: How to beat an idea to death - LHarry 10:10 am EST 11/22/14

Speaking as a reviewer with a much smaller throughput than Brantley's, I can tell you that i live in constant terror of repeating a turn of phrase too often. I realized not too long ago, for example, that when I was describing someone with a beautiful voice singingly slowly and sumptuously, I invariably used the verb "unfurled." That one has had to be put in the back of the drawer for a while.

This is particularly a problem now that everything anyone has ever written is available instantly online. All it takes is a text search for "docents" and Brantley's name and there you have it.


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