Is it just me?

[EmilyMiller]

I was proof-reading the beginning of my 11th hour attempt at a Summer Lovin’ story and changed:

“the line demarcating…”

to

“the line marking…”

Does anyone else have a default setting of “swallowed a thesaurus”?

My first drafts are often pock-marked with florid polysyllables.

Em

—

UPDATE: Thanks to @NoTalentHack for services to the typographically challenged.

 

[alohadave]

Dividing line

 

[Bamagan]

I was proof-reading the beginning of my 11th hour attempt at a Summer Lovin’ story and changed:

“the line demarcating…”

to

“the line marking…”

Does anyone else have a default setting of “swallowed a thesaurus”?

My fist drafts are often pock-marked with florid polysyllables.

Em

No need to castigate yourself. Hyperverbosity is likely endemic to this population. I myself suffer from spontaneous neologism syndrome.

 

[EmilyMiller]

No need to castigate yourself. Hyperverbosity is likely endemic to this population. I myself suffer from spontaneous neologism syndrome.

I do employ neologisms, but the problem is my frequent overuse of abstruse paleologisms.

Em

 

[EmilyMiller]

Dividing line

Now that’s Cliffs Notes.

Em

 

[NoTalentHack]

My fist drafts

Branching out?

 

[Euphony]

Meh, it happens.

Rough drafts are the author's sandbox. Some chose to stream of conscious word dump and sift through the muck later. Others benefit from pompous prose that, for whatever reason, connects neural pathways unreachable through other means.

So long as an author knows what they're doing and cleans up egregious examples of both extremes, they shouldplay how they best play, mudpies and all.

 

[Bamagan]

I do employ neologisms, but the problem is my frequent overuse of abstruse paleologisms.

Em

I love grandiloquent antediluvian shibboleths, but extracting them from the matrices of moribund wordhoards is taxing.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Branching out?

Oh dear. But you need to read Fishing Trip if you think that’s branching out .

Em

 

[EmilyMiller]

I love grandiloquent antediluvian shibboleths, but extracting them from the matrices of moribund wordhoards is taxing.

That sounds like a declaration of war, but I’m in London, having caught the red eye last night, and way too tired to respond.

Em

 

[LetsMisBehave]

Certainly not just you. Perhaps roll with it and make it a defining feature of some of your characters personalities - think Gary Cooper playing against Barbara Stanwyck in Ball of Fire. I have one recurring character who can't help displaying that she is well read while pretending for plot reasons to be of average intelligence at best.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Sandbox to a cat owner isn't a good thing. They are littered with cat litter. You know, piss and scat.

Rough drafts are the author's sandbox.

 

[onehitwanda]

I do employ neologisms, but the problem is my frequent overuse of abstruse paleologisms.

Em

This scans almost perfectly to "Modern Major-General" from the Pirates of Penzance.

You did it on purpose, didn't you.

 

[Comshaw]

Is it just me?
(snip)

Yes.


Comshaw

 

[EmilyMiller]

Yes.


Comshaw

Good to know.

Em

 

[MillieDynamite]

How rude!

Yes.


Comshaw

 

[AchtungNight]

Yep. I too end up editing my own works heavily pretty much every time I audit them. When I can keep it minimal and turn off my inner editor is when it’s time to publish.

 

[Comshaw]

How rude!

Aw my dear Millie, how so? EM asked a question and got an answer. There were no rude descriptive terms attached, no denigrating adjectives, no obnoxious verbs nor nouns of disrepute attached. And it wasn't me that put the words on her page, so it had to be just her. I have my own problems wrestling with the nasty little bundles of letters called words I tend to use much less trying to sneak some into someone else's work to flummox them. So yeah, was it just her? Again...yes.

Comshaw

 

[Djmac1031]

I do employ neologisms, but the problem is my frequent overuse of abstruse paleologisms.

Em

Proof it's not the size of your words, but how well you use them.

I understood nothing of this, BTW.

 

[Trionyx]

Proof it's not the size of your words, but how well you use them.

Is that the author’s version of ’It ain’t the meat, it’s the motion’?

 

[JaxRhapsody]

Maybe I should eat a thesaurus. I've had too many concussions to remember all dem $10 words. A dictionary, too. Of course... I tend to write regular ass people who live in the decadence of ordinary and average and college students who's comestibles and libations include the highest of tier Top Ramen and Budweiser.

 

[JaxRhapsody]

Proof it's not the size of your words, but how well you use them.

I understood nothing of this, BTW.

And how well they're comprehinded, as we can see.

 

[onehitwanda]

Thesaursen remain my favourite type of dinosaur.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Thesaursen remain my favourite type of dinosaur.

The sarsen is my favourite kind of rock.

 

[onehitwanda]

The sarsen is my favourite kind of rock.

Stonehenge is so passé - all the cool kids prefer dolmades.