Welcome to Vocabulary Wednesday ~Words To Help You Write Better The old inglenook fireplace added to the charm of the cottage in the woods. If you use WORD OF THE DAY ~ Inglenook in any of your writing, please link back to this post and share the link or the work itself in the comments.... Continue Reading →

Welcome to Vocabulary Wednesday ~Words To Help You Write Better Ah! Those halcyon days of that long ago summer, with not a care more than to squabble with the squirrels... If you use WORD OF THE DAY ~ Halcyon in any of your writing, please share the link or the work itself in the comments.... Continue Reading →

Welcome to Vocabulary Wednesday ~Words To Help You Write Better If you can't hear in that the tintinnabulation of heaven, then you have a J-cloth ear and a Bakelite soul. If you use WORD OF THE DAY ~ Tintinnabulation in any of your writing, please share the link or the work itself in the comments.... Continue Reading →

Welcome to Vocabulary Wednesday ~Words To Help You Write Better JRR Tolkien is said to have come up with this term to describe ‘a sudden and favourable resolution of events in a story; a happy ending’. In a 1944 letter, he explains his coinage: “I coined the word ‘eucatastrophe’: the sudden happy turn in a... Continue Reading →

Welcome to Vocabulary Wednesday ~Words To Help You Write Better The infirm state of my bodily health would be a sufficient apology for not taking up the pen at this time, wholesome as I deem it for the mind to apricate in the shelter of epistolary confidence, were it not that a considerable, I might... Continue Reading →

Welcome to Vocabulary Wednesday ~Words To Help You Write Better Chatoyant eyes bore into me with barely veiled excitement. If you use WORD OF THE DAY ~ Chatoyant in any of your writing, please share the link or the work itself in the comments. I will add the links to the post here so the... Continue Reading →

Welcome to Vocabulary Wednesday ~Words To Help You Write Better The grass susurrated underfoot as I made my way through the meadow. If you use WORD OF THE DAY ~ Susurrate in any of your writing, please share the link or the work itself in the comments. I will add the links to the post... Continue Reading →

Welcome to Vocabulary Wednesday ~Words To Help You Write Better The spires shone warmly in the evening alpenglow. If you use WORD OF THE DAY ~ Alpenglow in any of your writing, please share the link or the work itself in the comments. I will add the links to the post here so the others... Continue Reading →

Welcome to Vocabulary Wednesday ~Words To Help You Write Better She, to him, was an aisling, a beautiful vision that haunted him yet always eluded his grasp. If you use WORD OF THE DAY ~ Aisling in any of your writing, please share the link or the work itself in the comments. I will add... Continue Reading →

Welcome to Vocabulary Wednesday ~Words To Help You Write Better   It's tough to beat the unadulterated, magical syzygy of beef and American cheese on a steaming sesame bun. If you use WORD OF THE DAY ~ Syzygy in any of your writing, please share the link or the work itself in the comments. I will add... Continue Reading →