It’s All About the Words

I’ve got all these words in my head that are just screaming to get out. Some are descriptive, emotional, sensual, horrifying, loving. My writer friends understand what I mean. For us they are the heart and soul of our work.

Each word is carefully chosen. There are words we scrutinize (adjectives and adverbs), hunt down (gerund), labor over (verbs). We search them out and agonize over if there are too many, too few, and too passive. We edit, re-write and edit some more. We don’t stop there. We...