Each week, I'll choose a Word of the Week. I'll post the word on my blogs and on Facebook. Your assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to find out what that word means, employ the word in a sentence (or paragraph) and use it to jump-start a freewriting session. Build a short story from it, build an article from it, build *something written* from it. The main thing is to USE that word to think about what the word means, how it feels to you as a writer, how you could use that word in a piece of writing (could be a sentence, could be a longer piece) and go from there.
This week's word is tachyphrasia
Have a good end of the week, everyone! :)
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Friday, February 25, 2011
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Elemental Muse's Word of the Week for 2.17.11 -- fulgurites
Each week, I'll choose a Word of the Week. I'll post the word on my blogs and on Facebook. Your assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to find out what that word means, employ the word in a sentence (or paragraph) and use it to jump-start a freewriting session. Build a short story from it, build an article from it, build *something written* from it. The main thing is to USE that word to think about what the word means, how it feels to you as a writer, how you could use that word in a piece of writing (could be a sentence, could be a longer piece) and go from there.
This week's word is fulgurites
Have a good end of the week, everyone! :)
This week's word is fulgurites
Have a good end of the week, everyone! :)
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Last Word of the Week for 02.10.11 -- Quadrumane
Definition:
quadrumane: An animal having four hands and feet with opposable digits, specifically a member of the now obsolete order of mammals Quadrumana, comprising all non-human primates; a primate.
Source: http://www.wordnik.com/words/quadrumane
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quadrumane: An animal having four hands and feet with opposable digits, specifically a member of the now obsolete order of mammals Quadrumana, comprising all non-human primates; a primate.
Source: http://www.wordnik.com/words/quadrumane
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Thursday, February 3, 2011
Elemental Muse's Word of the Week: quadrumane
Each week, I'll choose a Word of the Week. I'll post the word on my blogs and on Facebook. Your assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to find out what that word means, employ the word in a sentence (or paragraph) and use it to jump-start a freewriting session. Build a short story from it, build an article from it, build *something written* from it. The main thing is to USE that word to think about what the word means, how it feels to you as a writer, how you could use that word in a piece of writing (could be a sentence, could be a longer piece) and go from there.
This week's word is quadrumane
Have a good end of the week, everyone! :)
This week's word is quadrumane
Have a good end of the week, everyone! :)
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Last week's word: knissomancy
Definition of last week's word:
knissomancy: Divination using burning incense
Source: phrontistery.info
Hope you had fun with it! ;) I burn incense all the time, so this one was of special interest to me.
knissomancy: Divination using burning incense
Source: phrontistery.info
Hope you had fun with it! ;) I burn incense all the time, so this one was of special interest to me.
Labels:
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EM's Word of the Week,
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