WORD OF THE DAY ~ Inglenook

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 →

May 22, 2019 9

Writing Prompt #12

Welcome To Writing Prompts Do the words or the picture, or both, for the Writing Prompt #12 get your creative juices flowing? Follow your senses, let the ink run on and create your masterpiece. This is not a timed exercise and there are no rules. Just let your muse take over and create what you... Continue Reading →

May 17, 2019 6

WORD OF THE DAY ~ Halcyon

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 →

May 15, 2019 6

Writing Prompt #11

Welcome To Writing Prompts Do the words or the picture, or both, for the Writing Prompt #11 get your creative juices flowing? Follow your senses, let the ink run on and create your masterpiece. This is not a timed exercise and there are no rules. Just let your muse take over and create... Continue Reading →

May 10, 2019 7

WORD OF THE DAY ~ Tintinnabulation

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 →

May 8, 2019 4

Writing Prompt #10

Welcome To Writing Prompts Do the words or the picture, or both, for the Writing Prompt #10 get your creative juices flowing? Follow your senses, let the ink run on and create your masterpiece. This is not a timed exercise and there are no rules. Just let your muse take over and create... Continue Reading →

May 3, 2019 5

Let’s have an ‘AHA MOMENT’- Build A New Word

Sometimes, inspiration strikes. Sometimes, we poke and prod at our brains to produce that spark. Whatever. The result is gratifying, though. Often, as writers, or even otherwise in the course of our daily living, we do find ourselves wishing for words to aptly explain what we are feeling. I personally do keep groping for enough... Continue Reading →

May 2, 2019 14

WORD OF THE DAY ~ Eucatastrophe

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 →

May 1, 2019 11

Writing Prompt #9

Welcome To Writing Prompts Do the words or the picture, or both, for the Writing Prompt #9 get your creative juices flowing? Follow your senses, let the ink run on and create your masterpiece. This is not a timed exercise and there are no rules. Just let your muse take over and create... Continue Reading →

April 26, 2019 12

WORD OF THE DAY ~ Apricate

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 →

April 24, 2019 5