No matter what I'm reading, everyone is "leveling their gaze" or "narrowing their eyes" at someone else on the page.
From Janet Evanovich to Andrew Davidson (who couldn't be less similar--literarily speaking), I'm encountering these same phrases.
Are you as tired of them as I am yet lacking a substitute, continue to use them?
So all writers are challenged with how to describe this phenomena that we all want to include in our novels when one character is sufficiently frustrated, piqued, annoyed, and has to look in the direction of the character doing the annoying.
Should we avoid this action completely? Should writers focus on individual parts of the eye, as in, "Her irises intensified in color as I told her it was over between us?" Or "His retina reticulated after I shot him in the shoulder."
Your thoughts?
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