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threemonkeysI don't know if I'm right but I just have this feeling. If you read the latest book in a long running series and something seems different about it, what should your reaction be. Just something off - its the same characters and the same sort of story yet the book just doesn't seem to be constructed the same. The balance is different. Perhaps the author is trying something different to jazz things up. But why would that mean a change in vocabulary when describing some common items.
You would have to suspect that the author in question is, without giving credit, subcontracting some of the basic writing duties - perhaps giving a plot outline to somebody then editing the final work. If its true, I don't know how I feel about that. In some ways, if the product is satisfactory then what does it matter - and when we are talking about long running series it is just product. But it does feel wrong somehow.
No, I'm not going to tell you the author - or even the genre.
You would have to suspect that the author in question is, without giving credit, subcontracting some of the basic writing duties - perhaps giving a plot outline to somebody then editing the final work. If its true, I don't know how I feel about that. In some ways, if the product is satisfactory then what does it matter - and when we are talking about long running series it is just product. But it does feel wrong somehow.
No, I'm not going to tell you the author - or even the genre.