Struggle to find the ‘right’ word for your writing? You’re not alone. Maybe, in trying to improve my own work, I can help other writers. Today’s words: Science Fiction, Somewhat, Sceptic/Denier, Set forth in, Solicitor. Synonyms are alternative words that might say exactly what you’re trying to convey. Science Fiction: defined as a genre of …
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Struggling to find the ‘right’ word for your writing? Me, too. Maybe, in trying to improve my own work, I can help other writers. Today’s words:  Quash, Refute, Quiet as a dormouse, Rückkehrunruhe, Reporter. Synonyms are alternative words that might say exactly what you’re trying to convey. Quash: Roget lists three sub-headings; suppress, abrogate, and …
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Struggling to find the ‘right’ word for your writing? Me, too. Maybe, in trying to improve my own work, I can help other writers. Today’s words:  Pathos, Prescribe/Proscribe, Pair of twins, Pope. Synonyms are alternative words that might say exactly what you’re trying to convey. Pathos: is a quality exciting pity or sadness. Roget lists …
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Struggling to find the ‘right’ word for your writing? Me, too. Maybe, in trying to improve my own work, I can help other writers. Today’s words: Off of, On the rocks, Offensively, Occhiolism, Obsolescence. Redundancies: words serving no purpose. In speech, they’re spacers, giving the speaker time to think. But in writing they slow …
The #Write #Word? Post 22
Apologies. I’m deeply involved in the edit notes for my WIP back from the publisher. This is time sensitive, so I’m missing the post this week to concentrate on the vital job of getting the corrections back in time for publication later this year. Bear with me. I expect to be back to normal next …
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Struggling to find the ‘right’ word for your writing? Me,too. Maybe, in trying to improve my own work, I can help other writers. Today’s words: Great Minds Think Alike…, Nod the head, Not in my backyard, Nodus Tollens, Nondescript, A slightly different approach this week: we don’t want this to be too predictable, after all. …
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Sometimes struggle to find the ‘right’ word for your writing? I do. Maybe, in trying to improve my own work, I can help other writers. Today’s words: Melodramatic, Momentarily, More perfect, Mostly, Mokita, M.P. Synonyms are alternative words that might say exactly what you’re trying to convey. Melodramatic: Roget lists only 3 headings for this; …
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Sometimes struggle to find the ‘right’ word for your writing? I do. Maybe, in trying to improve my own work, I can help other writers. Today’s words: Loathsome/Pleasant, Less/Fewer, Lap of luxury, Limply, Lawyer Antonyms: words that express the opposite of other words can be hard to find, because thesauruses usually give no examples. When …
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Sometimes struggle to find the ‘right’ word for your writing? I do. Maybe, in trying to improve my own work, I can help other writers. This scheduled post will appear whilst I’m in hospital undergoing minor surgery. It’ll be a few days before I’m back at my desk, and a few weeks before I’m back …
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Sometimes struggle to find the ‘right’ word for your writing? I do. Maybe, in trying to improve my own work, I can help other writers. Today’s words: Jaded/Refreshed, Joined at the hip, Jealously, Judicial/Judicious, Jouska, Jackal. Antonyms: words that express the opposite of other words can be hard to find, because thesauruses usually give no …
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Sometimes struggle to find the ‘right’ word for your writing? I do. Maybe, in trying to improve my own work, I can help other writers. Today’s words: Imitation, Illustrated drawing, Intensely, Inflammable/Flammable, Idiot. Synonyms are alternative words that might say exactly what you’re trying to convey. Imitation: Good old Roget’s Thesaurus lists the following subheadings …
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Sometimes struggle to find the ‘right’ word for your writing? I do. Maybe, in trying to improve my own work, I can help other writers. Today’s words: Hideous/Beautiful, Hopelessly, Have an adverse effect on, Hidden ambush, Habitué. Antonyms: words that express the opposite of other words can be hard to find, because thesauruses usually give …
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Struggling to find the ‘right’ word for your writing? Me, too. Maybe, in trying to improve my own work, I can help other writers. Today’s words: Gadget, Gleefully, Gourmet/Gourmand, Get her back up, Liberosis, Garbage. Synonyms are alternative words that might say exactly what you’re trying to convey. Gadget: some synonyms are object, contrivance, instrument, …
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Sometimes struggle to find the ‘right’ word for your writing? I do. Maybe, in trying to improve my own work, I can help other writers. Today’s words: Earn, In order that, Especially, Echo back, Lachesism, Politician. Synonyms are alternative words that might say exactly what you’re trying to convey. Earn: synonyms in Roget’s include: busy …
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Sometimes struggle to find the ‘right’ word for your writing? I do. Maybe, in trying to improve my own work, I can help other writers. Today’s words: Epic, Decimate, Filled(full) to capacity, Go the extra mile. Synonyms are alternative words that might say exactly what you’re trying to convey. Epic: Roget’s gives the following headers; …

