$20 Words

[caleb35]

I looked to see if there were stories of Tainted Love on Lit focusing on perineal delights, but they all seem to be horror or falling for someone you shouldn't.

So there's a niche for someone to fill.

Tainted Love??? Oh yeahhhhhhhh

 

[caleb35]

Tain't that the truth?

Was waiting for someone to make that joke, thanks for coming through

 

[Kumquatqueen]

Tainted Love??? Oh yeahhhhhhhh

Saw him in concert last year. He's still got it.

 

[SkyBubble]

Who enjoys using big words that are written so damn well that it makes the reader rush to a dictionary to see what it means?

Example... music and memory are ubiquitous.

When I was in college, I was talking to a friend about all the $50 words I liked but never could manage to work into a story. He said "Why don't you just use them all in one story?" So I did.

 

[EmilyMiller]

I will not stand for this slander against "taint," one of the English language's greatest and versatile words

T’ain’t

 

[SoCalAshley]

I try to write my stories with words that my readers don’t have to look up. There was an exception, though. I was writing about my dad, who was the only person in the neighborhood who still had a print subscription. I called him a luddite.

 

[anthrodisiac]

Was waiting for someone to make that joke, thanks for coming through

I live to serve.

 

[liliput1]

I live to serve.

It's a cookbook!

 

[liliput1]

Stygian. For when 'really dark' or 'hellish' just aren't bleak enough.

 

[TheWritingGroup]

I have a person in "Beast" who has "quotidian invisibility", meaning that she's good at fading into the background and being seen as unimportant and routine.

 

[BeechLeaf]

'Rachel's a lovely person too.' He got distracted. 'Everyone's lovely. Two literate people like us, we should be doing better.'

'If you describe me, or her, as pulchritudinous, it's a custard pie to the face. And all the clothes back on. So watch it.'

 

[Erozetta]

I looked to see if there were stories of Tainted Love on Lit focusing on perineal delights, but they all seem to be horror or falling for someone you shouldn't.

So there's a niche for someone to fill.

There was an author event in March with that very theme (Falling for someone you shouldn't/romantic horror). Most of the stories are probably from that event.

 

[M_K_Babalon]

More Five & Dime words from the American Old West.

Cady – Hat, Calico Queen – Prostitute, California Collar – A hangman’s noose, Chickabiddy – A young chicken. Also used as a term of endearment for children, Choke the Horn – To grab the saddle horn, something no cowboy wants to be seen doing. Clap-Trap – An artifice for attracting applause, used chiefly in theatrical or political events. Later, applied to someone whose mouth is constantly making noise.

Dangler – An express train, Dash – Euphemism for damn, Deadshot – Strong liquor, Didn’t Have a Tail Feather Left – Broke, Diggers – Spurs (and yes, I have to pair of Diggers), Disremember – Forget or choose to forget.

Ah. That's why that robots name is Clap Trap in Borderlands.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Maybe I posted this before, but this is from the self-satire in which I get roasted by several of my characters:

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Milena stood and went to join Emma and Lily, who lay her down, Emma straddling her face, and Lily getting between her legs. The angel-demon tag team set about their new assignment with typical enthusiasm and effectiveness. Both were very experienced at pleasuring humans.

Asmodeus grinned, and said, "I assume anal?"

Author: Yeah, and we're both already lubed up, just to save some time, OK?

"The pen truly is mighty," he laughed, while applying pressure, at just the right angle, in just the right place.

Author: Oof! Maybe I wrote you too large. No! Don't stop. For fuck's sake don't stop! All the way in. Mmm...

The Demon Lord was considerate enough to allow a little time for acclimation, then he decided to treat his human partner as if she were one of his own kind, pistoning her tight viscera mercilessly.

Author: Fuuuuuuuuck!!!!!!

From somewhere in the nearby writhing ball of female bodies, the sound of Milena laughing could be discerned. "Written off more than you can chew, sis?"

Asmodeus's aquiline physiognomy bore the hallmarks of both concentration and concupiscence. His demonic puissance now acting as a potent ensorcellement on his mortal paramor. As his exertion burgeoned in both amplitude and frequency, rivulets of saline bestirred on his wan sinciput, and pullulated earthwards over his pallid buccae...

Four voices - three female, one male - yelled in frustrated unison, "TOO FUCKING FLOWERY! REMEMBER THE READERS!"

Author: Well you try writing breviloquently while being roughly sodomized by an over-endowed demon. Fuck, here I go ag...

The chorus responded, "JUST TRY!"

 

[stickygirl]

I had to find a synonym for soporific and found somniferous. That'll do nicely, thank you.

 

[stickygirl]

Stygian. For when 'really dark' or 'hellish' just aren't bleak enough.

"When they themselves accompany the ghosts
Which wander round about the Stygian fields."

 

[Britva415]

Who enjoys using big words that are written so damn well that it makes the reader rush to a dictionary to see what it means?

Example... music and memory are ubiquitous.

I think that if it's "written well," the reader shouldn't have to look it up. They should be able to just learn its meaning from context.

I'm not saying it's "written badly" if it doesn't signal its own meaning from context, but, it isn't written well enough to be seamless and save the reader the interruption.

 

[Britva415]

'Rachel's a lovely person too.' He got distracted. 'Everyone's lovely. Two literate people like us, we should be doing better.'

'If you describe me, or her, as pulchritudinous, it's a custard pie to the face. And all the clothes back on. So watch it.'

That is a word that I will never, ever, ever use, and only part of the reason for that is that it absolutely does not sound like what it means. Rather the opposite.

 

[Britva415]

I see that word and I imagine the reaction, "the FUCK you called me!@?"

 

[AG31]

I think that if it's "written well," the reader shouldn't have to look it up. They should be able to just learn its meaning from context.

Yes, this works, and it's why my head is full of words about which I was never sure of the meaning.

 

[Britva415]

Yes, this works, and it's why my head is full of words about which I was never sure of the meaning.

I admire the commitment to remaining immersed instead of interrupting your reading to resolve the author's lack of clarity.

 

[StillStunned]

If it's a beautiful tomb, you could describe it as sepulchritudinous.

 

[AG31]

I admire the commitment to remaining immersed instead of interrupting your reading to resolve the author's lack of clarity.

I got along with vagueness for most of my life.