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Cityscape, Skyline Metropolis?

March 7, 2010

The suf­fix of one word can lead to so many other inter­est­ing words. In look­ing into the theme for Doo­dle Week on U3 this Fri­day I knew I wanted to draw some kind of city sky­line, a cityscape. That led to look­ing up other kinds of words with ‘scape’ as a suf­fix. That led me […]

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Badaud

February 18, 2010

A per­son given to idle obser­va­tion of every­thing.
From Wordnik.com, word of the day.
Can you see this per­son as being some kind of know it all? Or are they just really aim­less and hav­ing noth­ing bet­ter to do with their time?
Write a char­ac­ter, some­one extremely badaud. Is the per­son like­able? Aggra­vat­ing? Or great fun to have around, […]

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Dystopia

February 17, 2010

From the Free Dic­tio­nary — Dystopia: an imag­i­nary place where every­thing is as bad as it can be.
Dystopia is the oppo­site of a utopia. It’s a pretty great word if you’re a sci­ence fic­tion fan, like myself. I hadn’t heard of it before. Or, at least I didn’t remem­ber it. My nephew started play­ing a new […]

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Do You Have a Favourite Word?

December 4, 2009

Have you heard of Word­nik? It’s an online dic­tio­nary which I read about on Web­Work­er­Daily.I like the look of the site, it’s a clean, fresh design. Bet­ter yet, I tested it with some odd words and it passed, had them all listed. It did not give a per­fectly clear descrip­tion for each but it was […]

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Hyperlocal, What is It?

December 2, 2009

I’ve seen the term hyper­local come up three times lately. I decided to spend some time to find out what it is exactly and how it is being used.
Of course, Wikipedia comes up first in the results I get from Google. : Hyper­local -
refers to the emer­gent ecol­ogy of data (includ­ing tex­tual con­tent), aggre­ga­tors, publication […]

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Wordplay with Bookworm

November 18, 2009

One of my guilty plea­sures are online games. I play sev­eral. I used to play Face­book games but I have cut back on those espe­cially. Still, one of my favourites for a few years is Book­Worm.
Maybe you have never played it. It is addict­ing and chal­leng­ing, espe­cially when you get a let­ter on fire […]

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Slipping a Little Bit of Big Words In

November 16, 2009

Some peo­ple hide behind big words and some peo­ple are afraid of them. I can under­stand both.
If you have ever read some­thing like a sci­en­tific jour­nal, a gov­ern­ment pub­li­ca­tion about taxes, a uni­ver­sity paper, or a polit­i­cal speech, you will have seen some­thing clut­tered with extra words and lit­tered with big words. Peo­ple use big words […]

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Logorrhea?

September 16, 2009

Vote today (Sep­tem­ber 16th) on the Word Off! at Word of the Duh.  Is it log­or­rhea or pink?

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Write a Story in 50 Words

August 25, 2009

I’ve posted before about chal­leng­ing your­self with word count lim­its.
Here is a Live­Jour­nal group, 50 Word Story, where they write a story in 50 words. Can you do it? I read some great sto­ries in the group. Pretty amaz­ing how much can be told in so few words.
Here’s mine:
A tool­belt pulled his pants low, expos­ing his […]

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Ephemera: No More Than a Day

July 31, 2009

From Wikipdeia: Ephemera is tran­si­tory writ­ten and printed mat­ter not intended to be retained or pre­served. The word derives from the Greek, mean­ing things last­ing no more than a day. Some col­lectible ephemera are adver­tis­ing trade cards, air­sick­ness bags, book­marks, cat­a­logues, greet­ing cards, let­ters, pam­phlets, post­cards, posters, prospec­tuses, stock cer­tifi­cates, tick­ets and zines.
If I try to […]

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Cloak Versus Cape

July 14, 2009

In fash­ion, the word cape usu­ally refers to a shorter gar­ment and cloak to a full-length ver­sion of the dif­fer­ent types of gar­ment, and though the two terms are some­times used syn­ony­mously for full-length cov­er­ings, the short­est ver­sions are never referred to as cloaks.
– From Wikipedia: Cape
What’s the dif­fer­ence between using one word or another? […]

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The Rogue Taxidermist

July 5, 2009

Some things are just creepy. See­ing taxi­dermy (taxi­der­mied?) ani­mals which have been sit­ting some­where for­got­ten for years is quite creepy to me. I don’t know why exactly, I’m really sure they are long and well dead after all. Just… ick!
Taxidermy.net — For the odd per­son who may come here and want to know more about hunting […]

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Challenging the Limits

July 2, 2009

Chal­lenge your­self with lim­its.
Start with Six Sen­tences. What can you write in six sen­tences, a com­plete story with a begin­ning, mid­dle and end­ing? It’s a chal­lenge. Read what oth­ers have done if you need inspi­ra­tion. Post your work to the site, even if it isn’t really great to you.
Next try 200 Words and then, a real […]

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Omnicide

June 23, 2009

You might think I’m a doom and gloom sort if you knew how inter­est­ing I find the end of civ­i­liza­tion. But it’s actu­ally the rebuild­ing and the sur­vival that really inter­est me. In part the cause and results of how things ended too, like read­ing a really good mys­tery where you have to pull the […]

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Old English Words

March 10, 2009

I Bequeath Thee has a dic­tio­nary of Old Eng­lish Words. Go through the list and pick out words that attract your inner ear. Say the words out loud then for your physcial ear. Could you use those in your reg­u­lar writ­ing? A dearth of them in the midst of  over­many words would be barely notice­able.
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