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What are your favourite and least favourite words? Any reasons why?
My answers:
Favourite: Abundance, cadence, sleep, deft, bell, onomatopoeia
Least favourite: Said, the
My reasons:
Abundance: Say it, now. ABUNdance. Lovely rhythm.
Cadence: Because few words make me smile and think fondly of marching band like this one does. I also read a novel by Holly Lisle? that has a female protagonist named Cadence Drake. You have to adore names like that.
Sleep: Because it's 8 AM and I've been up all night.
Deft: Deft is a word that doesn't crop up too often in your average fanfic or novel. It conveys a nice image, but like all of those rare words, it must be used cautiously.
Bell: See Cadence. No, seriously; this is one of my trigger words when used in the right phrase. Give me a good author who knows how to use his or her imagery, and I will fall in love with the words on their pages.
Onomatopoeia: COME ON. Also, I misspelled this word in a spelling bee. It's my bane.
Said: Said is a necessary evil. I hate using it in my writing, but you only get a number of "shouted" and "stated" and "yelled" before your prose falls flat on its over-verbose face.
The: Yet another "ick" word. Just have to be careful your sentences don't turn into repetitions of the cat and the mouse took the time to play on the hardwood floor before the cat dragged the rodent over to the piano, whereupon the feline devoured the helpless vermin. I mean, SNORE. And bore. And... ick.
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Now, for sleep. The sweetest word of all.
My answers:
Favourite: Abundance, cadence, sleep, deft, bell, onomatopoeia
Least favourite: Said, the
My reasons:
Abundance: Say it, now. ABUNdance. Lovely rhythm.
Cadence: Because few words make me smile and think fondly of marching band like this one does. I also read a novel by Holly Lisle? that has a female protagonist named Cadence Drake. You have to adore names like that.
Sleep: Because it's 8 AM and I've been up all night.
Deft: Deft is a word that doesn't crop up too often in your average fanfic or novel. It conveys a nice image, but like all of those rare words, it must be used cautiously.
Bell: See Cadence. No, seriously; this is one of my trigger words when used in the right phrase. Give me a good author who knows how to use his or her imagery, and I will fall in love with the words on their pages.
Onomatopoeia: COME ON. Also, I misspelled this word in a spelling bee. It's my bane.
Said: Said is a necessary evil. I hate using it in my writing, but you only get a number of "shouted" and "stated" and "yelled" before your prose falls flat on its over-verbose face.
The: Yet another "ick" word. Just have to be careful your sentences don't turn into repetitions of the cat and the mouse took the time to play on the hardwood floor before the cat dragged the rodent over to the piano, whereupon the feline devoured the helpless vermin. I mean, SNORE. And bore. And... ick.
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Now, for sleep. The sweetest word of all.
