The Dangers of Words with Friends

Well, first–it's addictive. Oh yes. I can play Scrabble all night every night with a bunch of different people! It's amazing!

Uhh…except that's not really a good use of my time. Oops.

Interesting, though…last night I was thinking that my writing plays against me in some ways. True, as a constant user of language, I know a lot of words, but often without thinking, I dismiss a word as too archaic to use. The goal of my books is to tell stories, after all. If I send readers running to the...