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Why Big Words are Placing a Curse on Your Writing
I’m a full-time writer and, honestly, I still stop to Google words I’ve read
Let me ask you this:
Hath thine not had a great many frenetic thoughts, worrisome in mind at the stark knowledge of their lack of intellectually attuned lexicon?
Or should I say: good literary lord help me, I don’t know a lot of Big™ words.
The amount of instances I can recall of when I’m reading through some thick and meaty romantasy novel, then having to abruptly stop, open Dictionary.com, and have a quick peruse of what “pugnacious” means, is enough to fill the shelves of an Instances I Can Recall™ resale store. It’s irritating.
I have to take a piecemeal —
adjective
done, made, or accomplished piece by piece or in a fragmentary way
— approach to each of these incomprehensible terms. And it’s getting in the way of the book!
Think about it. You’re in the flow. Swept away by the imaginary landscape inked before your eyes, characters that don’t exist capturing your attention, immersed in words and worlds that have briefly severed your connection with reality, transporting you to the wonders of make-believe and Far Far Away — until…
