Writing Inspiration from Crazy Sources: But It Works!

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Writing Inspiration from Crazy Sources: But It Works!

Creativity is fed from our subconscious minds, thus it works in indirect ways. Often the Muse will bestow ideas on you from crazy sources. Ideas will come at you from seeing or reading things which are totally unrelated. The more you can think outside the box, the more ideas you will be able to harness.

My husband and I discovered Rhett and Link on Youtube. These guys podcast frequently and have a great video on 14 words the English language needs and doesn’t have. It was a great laugh… plus a great point. We need to look outside our own cultural box for words which will inspire us.

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The video makes a great introduction to my promised list of out of “old time, out of common use” words for this month.

Below are July’s words. It’s your choice how to use them: whether as writing prompt topics, random idea generators to get unstuck, or you may wish to incorporate them into your work in progress. If you can’t use the word, you can benefit from the definition behind it. You will find something for every genre whether Romance, Steampunk, Science Fiction, Memoir or Paranormal. Please note that like this blog, all spelling is Australian.

Flittermouse: a bat.
Portreeve: the Chief Magistrate of a Port.
Termagant: a supposed Saracen idol appearing in old plays as a blustering character. Tumultuous, turbulent, quarrelsome, scolding, shrewish; a boisterous, brawling turbulent person.
Chirurgeon: a working with the hand, a surgeon.
Pelagic: inhabiting the deep sea.

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