Sunday, October 4, 2009

Writing Tips - 9

Aggrandize your individual phraseology.
Expand your own vocabulary.
And then put it away.
Seriously, just put it away.

Sure, sign up for a word of the day. It's important to continue to grow, even if that growth is with a word that you'll never use in everyday normal life.

And there may be a time when you need to know the word "bifurcate," which is today's Word of the Day.

But if you and the fourteen people who get word of the day are the only ones who know that word, what use is it? You can't communicate effectively - which is what writing is. This isn't High School English, where you were trying to take up page space. Say what you want in the best words - even if those words are short and simple and everyone knows them.

And if you can't find the write word to exactly describe what you are trying to get across, then use "bifurcate."

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