15 Wonderful Words for Delightful Experiences. By Arika Okrent Today, we’re teaming up with GEICO to crank out some incredible lists full of delight, and what could be more delightful than always having the right word at your fingertips? Some situations are just too perfect for words, but these bits of lovely lingo will shorten that list ever so slightly. 1. Petrichor The scent of rain on dry ground. The word was coined in the 1960s by mineralogists studying the chemical composition of that scent. 2. Easy on the eyes. 3. Delicious. 4. Merry enjoyment, delight. 5. Good for the health. 6. To take luxurious pleasure in something. 7. Having a gentle, sweet way of speaking. 8.
A cozy little room—exactly the place you want to be in cold weather! 9. Soothing, agreeable speech. 10. The quality of sounding good or pleasing to the ear. 11. Having a comfort-loving, easygoing, social personality. 12. Pleasure, enjoyment. 13. A source of delight. 14. Beautiful. 15. A lover of beautiful things.
My Opinion Columns. Words I Never Want to See in Your Novel. Survey to help you create a great character. Shakespeare Insult Kit. Shakespeare Insult Kit Since 1996, the origin of this kit was listed as anonymous. It came to me on a piece of paper in the 90's with no attribution, and I thought it would make a cool web page.
Though I searched for the origin, I could never find it. In 2014, Lara M informed found the originating author. It appears to be an English teacher at Center Grove High School in Greenwood Indiana named Jerry Maguire. Combine one word from each of the three columns below, prefaced with "Thou": My additions: cullionly whoreson knave fusty malmsey-nosed blind-worm caluminous rampallian popinjay wimpled lily-livered scullian burly-boned scurvy-valiant jolt-head misbegotten brazen-faced malcontent odiferous unwash'd devil-monk poisonous bunch-back'd toad fishified leaden-footed rascal Wart-necked muddy-mettled Basket-Cockle pigeon-liver'd scale-sided Back to the insulter.
Chris Seidel. "Meaning" is a Constant Battle. Why no one should ever be bored. I Like Your Flaws. I like how you mispronounce words sometimes, how you fumble and stammer and stutter looking for the right ones to say and the right ways to say them. I appreciate that you find language challenging, because it is, because everything manmade is challenging. Including man, including you. When you sleep on your side, I like to map the constellations between your beauty marks freckles pimples, the minuscule mountains that sprinkle your back. I like the tufts of hair you forgot to shave and the way you smell when you haven’t showered in a while; I like the sleep left in your eyes.
I like the way your skin dies in the middle of the night, how you die from embarrassment the next morning; how you writhe in the snake casing you’ve left behind. I enjoy seeing you insecure, vulnerable. The burns, the scars, the black and blues on your face body heart, I want to know their stories. Your flaws single you out, set you apart, make you different from the rest, and thank god. Self Publish a Book. 36 Writing Essays by Chuck Palahniuk. 1: Establishing Your Authority Chuck teaches two principal methods for building a narrative voice your readers will believe in. Discover the Heart Method and the Head Method and how to employ each to greatest effect. 2: Developing a Theme At the core of Minimalism is focusing any piece of writing to support one or two major themes. 3: Using “On-The-Body” Physical Sensation Great writing must reach both the mind and the heart of your reader, but to effectively suspend reality in favor of the fictional world, you must communicate on a physical level, as well. 4: Submerging the “I” First-person narration, for all its immediacy and power, becomes a liability if your reader can't identify with your narrator. 5: Nuts and Bolts: Hiding a Gun Sometimes called "plants and payoffs" in the language of screenwriters, Hiding a Gun is an essential skill to the writer's arsenal that university writing courses almost never touch upon. 6: Nuts and Bolts: “Thought” Verbs 8: Nuts and Bolts: Using Choruses.
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