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Q&A How find an appropriate vocabulary

Prose should slide off your fingers like warm butter. If your brain screams "discombobulated" at you, you don't have to ignore it because it's a big word. There is of course a limit based on your w...

posted 8y ago by Stu W‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T05:19:12Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision by user avatar Stu W‭ · 2019-12-08T05:19:12Z (almost 5 years ago)
Prose should slide off your fingers like warm butter. If your brain screams "discombobulated" at you, you don't have to ignore it because it's a big word. There is of course a limit based on your working vocabulary and the genre. Too many big words is snooty.

I became a much better writer when I stopped using a thesaurus. My dictionary primarily gets used for parts of speech and hyphenation; however, my spelling's not great, but I use Word so it tells me.

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2016-06-09T01:01:53Z (over 8 years ago)
Original score: 1