Post 15 – Purple Prose (A Small Screed)

I get rather annoyed when writers and writing teachers talk about paring down word usage.  Stephen King supposedly said “Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word.”  It’s a coy and clever sentiment, Mr. King, but I respectably disagree.  There have been many times when I knew the word [...]

Post 11 – Big Words

I am often accused of using too many big words when I write.  Often the accusation is continued with “when a small one will do.”  I have several problems with that accusation.  First of all, I don’t use big words for the sake of using big words.  (Yes, there may be a small element of [...]

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