The Right Words
"The difference between the right word and the almost-right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug." - Mark Twain
How to find the right word every time, in every sentence, in every scene. How to make the reader jolt with pleasure at your word combinations.
It is a struggle...
"... my guts were wrenched as if one hand had forced its way down my throat and quenched them, taking pleasure in giving me spasms." -- Daimones
Sometimes it feels that way while writing.
How to find the right word every time, in every sentence, in every scene. How to make the reader jolt with pleasure at your word combinations.
It is a struggle...
"... my guts were wrenched as if one hand had forced its way down my throat and quenched them, taking pleasure in giving me spasms." -- Daimones
Sometimes it feels that way while writing.
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Lisa
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Aug 19, 2012 01:16PM
Sometimes? My friend it feels like that a lot of times. Finding the right word and not reusing the same version all the time? A battle!
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Lisa, fully agree. I answer you with words from David Gerrold:"Writing is making decisions, one after the other. Every moment of every story is a decision, every chapter, every page, every paragraph—even every sentence. Every word. One decision after another: This word instead of that, this thought instead of that, this image instead of that—and decision-making is one of the most exhausting of all human activities, no matter how good at it you are."
So yes, every time, at every word.
Yup that is so true. Or as a pin I used to wear says "Writing isn't so hard, you just pound your head against the keyboard until words form from your blood, sweat and tears."
