Musings of a Chocoholic Romance Author: The Internet is a Wunnerful Thing

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

The Internet is a Wunnerful Thing

I was just perusing the Internet, looking for some inspiration for this blog post and found (again) a site called Daily Writing Tips. Holy. E. Cow. All sorts of terrific information. I scrolled through the offerings and stopped on this one: 100 Beautiful and Ugly Words.

Words are to a writer what paints are to an artist - Our colorful medium - the way we add color, lighting, depth, emotion, shading or shadowing. On top of that, they're really fun to play with.

So, in keeping with the word theme I have going, I also checked out these pages on the site Daily Writing Tips. Much fun to read and informative.

The Yiddish Handbook: 40 Words You Should Know

Latin Words and Expressions

12 Greek Words You Should Know

10 Words That Don't Mean What You Think They Do

And the Grand Finale of Links, this link will take you to a page with all manner of article links to Misused Words.

word/wərd/

Noun:

A single distinct meaningful element of speech or writing, used with others (or sometimes alone) to form a sentence and typically shown...

Verb:

Choose and use particular words in order to say or write (something).

Exclamation:

Used to express agreement: "“That Jay is one dangerous character.” “Word.”".

Synonyms:

noun. speech - vocable - promise

verb. phrase - formulate - couch - verbalize

More info »Wikipedia - Dictionary.com - Answers.com - Merriam-Webster

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Quotes About Writing

For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word. ~Catherine Drinker Bowen

Forget all the rules. Forget about being published. Write for yourself and celebrate writing. ~Melinda Haynes

My purpose is to entertain myself first and other people secondly. ~John D. MacDonald

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else. ~Gloria Steinem

A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. ~Thomas Mann

Easy reading is damned hard writing. ~Anonymous

We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to. ~Somerset Maugham

Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way. ~E. L. Doctorow

The secret of becoming a writer is to write, write and keep on writing. ~Ken MacLeod\

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards. ~Robert A. Heinlein

Never throw up on an editor. ~Ellen Datlow

If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write. ~Stephen King

There are no rules in writing. There are useful principles. Throw them away when they're not useful. But always know what you're throwing away. ~Will Shetterly

Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned. ~Oscar Wilde

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. ~Jack London

If you wait for inspiration, you're not a writer, but a waiter. ~Anonymous

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master. ~Ernest Hemingway

You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing. ~Gene Wolfe