The skies they are a changing since a new weather pattern arrived yesterday, pushing away the relentlessly sunny and perfect autumn weather. I’m hoping that I’m over my flu and here’s wishing that you all avoid it.
I was leafing though my notebooks yesterday and realized that I have fallen behind in transferring words for my word list into that document. If you’re new to this blog, about three years ago I started a word list after I edited my book Between the Lines. While reading the final drafts I realized how many times I’d relied on my favorite words and how I need to use more of my vocabulary. So as I go through life, I jot down words I want to use more often. Now, sometimes these are words I already use, but this habit reinforces their appeal and serves as a constant reminder that I’m looking for language with pizzazz.
Tsunami, balk, bamboozled, fantastical,nefarious, flinchy, chumpy, dimwitted, clob, vim, limn, clabber, raffish, poppycock, tattletale, piffle, gimcrack, numinous, lustral, grog, higgledy-piggledy, jibber jabber, dovetail, verboten, and in honor of the late William Safire, nattering.
Oh, and I just used jibber-jabber in the preface for the book proposal I’m working on. Keep writing, keep dreaming.
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