An Experiment in Writing – Part 11: Language/Word Choice

Language is much more than how you use verb tenses and what adverbs and adjectives do, and word choice is much more than using the right word versus the almost right word.

This experiment in writing explores how to create a reading rhythm which keeps your reader reading, and how to use language to emphasize what’s happening on the page.

 
Think I’m onto something? Take a class with me or schedule a critique of your work.
Think I’m an idiot? Let me know in a comment.
Either way, we’ll both learn something.

Pick up several dozen copies of my books because it’s a nice thing to do, you care, and I need the money.

Or you can get copies of and The Book of The Wounded Healers and follow along.

A Twelfth of Carrabis (Dec 2024 Newsletter)

(we’re doing something different. let me know what you think)


It is December and soon we will celebrate another turn around the sun. We are never alone on this journey, and I wonder how many appreciate we circle the sun, our sun circles the near clusters, the near clusters move through a great arm of the Milky Way, the Milky Way travels with it’s galactic neighbors in a near-eternity long dance, and the universe itself expands and we move on an arrow’s trajectory with it.

Taking all the accelerations, all the motions, all the movements into account humbles me. Philosophies range from a single Great Creator to the randomness of quantum strings, and I add the caveats that if there is a single Great Creator, their mathematical skills are amazing, and if quantum strings, go deeply enough in the quantum universe and there is no such thing as randomness.

Read further in this newsletter and you’ll notice some different formatting. Many thanks to Sister Rika Chandra‘s help and guidance (I’m not visual, she is) in making “A Twelfth of Carrabis” more readable and (we hope) more engaging.

I mentioned last month I’m thinking of redoing my website. The redo is ongoing albeit slowly as some changes require a bit of coding (blech!).

December 2024 Announcements

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The Book of The Wounded Healers (A Study in Perception) Chapter 49 – Hormone-Free Dancing In Harlem now available on BizCatalyst 360

BizCatalyst 360°’ Chief Imagineer and Founder Dennis Pitocco wrote a beautiful forward to my The Book of The Wounded Healers (A Study in Perception), and also offered to share some chapters (selected by my first readers) on the BizCatalyst 360° site.

Today’s offering is Chapter 49 – Hormone-Free Dancing In Harlem.

Enjoy.

The Book of The Wounded Healers (A Study in Perception) “Chapter 40 – Dancing With Death” now available on BizCatalyst360°

BizCatalyst360°’s Dennis Pitocco wrote a wonderful foreword to my latest novel, The Book of The Wounded Healers (A Study in Perception) and additionally offered to share some reader-selected chapters on the BizCatalyst360° site.

This entry is Chapter 40 – Dancing With Death.

Many thanks to Dennis for his wonderful foreword and this opportunity.

The Book of The Wounded Healers (A Study in Perception) “Chapter 26 – Chess Lessons” now available on BizCatalyst360°

BizCatalyst360°’s Dennis Pitocco wrote a wonderful foreword to my latest novel, The Book of The Wounded Healers (A Study in Perception) and additionally offered to share some reader-selected chapters on the BizCatalyst360° site.

Second up is Chapter 26 – Chess Lessons.

Many thanks to Dennis for his wonderful foreword and this opportunity.