I had a cute title planned out for this post that involved symbols and punctuation used to mask certain four-letter words, but the permalink didn’t like them. That’s fine. Modern idioms don’t belong in fantasy fiction, so it’s only appropriate that I can’t use one in the post title. Nothing disrupts my sense of immersion [...]
Modern idioms in fantasy fiction
Filed under Soapbox on September 30, 2008
Tagged: fantasy fiction, idioms, language, vocabulary
The art of using a thesaurus
Filed under Soapbox, Tips & Tools on May 20, 2004
Tagged: thesaurus, vocabulary
One of my pet peeves is the overuse of a word in fiction. I cringe when I see the same word used two or more times within a couple sentences of each other. It jumps right off the page at me. In my opinion, it’s a sign of a limited vocabulary. I like to think [...]
