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    #31
    People won't know "hazing?" Really?

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      #32
      What about beautiful words you love to use? Words that aren't necessarily thesaurus words, but have a beauty in the written language. Like sapphire or radiant.

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        #33
        I love my editor a ton! She is FANTASTIC! This is one of the few things we disagree on, but it's okay. We always work it out. I like to come across words I don't know, I look them up and then I have learned something
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          #34
          I find myself not using many flourish-y words. I feel it obfuscates the story so much so that many may opt to defenestrate the book as opposed to completing it
          It ain't braggin' if you can do it. . .

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            #35
            Originally posted by RJHubbard53 View Post
            I find myself not using many flourish-y words. I feel it obfuscates the story so much so that many may opt to defenestrate the book as opposed to completing it
            Now that's funny!
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              #36
              Originally posted by C.W. LaSart View Post
              I like to come across words I don't know, I look them up and then I have learned something
              I like that, too. My favorite example is Nick Cave's "And the Ass Saw the Angel". I don't know if any of you have read it, but when I read it I wrote down the words I didn't know on a legal pad. There was a word I had never heard every couple pages. I thought the man had an incredible vocabulary or was extremely gifted at making up words, since all of them seemed to have proper roots to be English words. I eventually filled 4 pages on my legal pad and found very few of them in my dictionary. It wasn't until a year or so later, when I had access to the OED online for a while, that I discovered all of the words were real or at least derived properly from their etymological roots. Priceless. And an the book is a great read on top of that.
              "Dance until your feet hurt. Sing until your lungs hurt. Act until you're William Hurt." - Phil Dunphy ("Modern Family"), from Phil's-osophy.

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                #37
                Originally posted by TerryE View Post
                I like that, too. My favorite example is Nick Cave's "And the Ass Saw the Angel".
                One of favourite books of all time. LOVED IT! his prose had its own rhythm, like it was a song that lasted 250 pages. Man, I could talk about that book till the cows come home. Sadly, it's late here in the UK and i have to be up at 5am. Still, thanks Terry for ending my night with a smile.

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                  #38
                  Agrees with the above..."And The Ass Saw The Angel" was fantastic...IS fantastic. Gorgeous language. I liked "The Death Of Bunny Monroe," but it wasn't the same.

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                    #39
                    Originally posted by C.W. LaSart View Post
                    Sheesh-my editor digs me for using words like distended and hazing-says people won't know what they mean. Morsicant-they would die!
                    I am planning to use it as a character name. :-)

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                      #40
                      Originally posted by Draven Ames View Post
                      What about beautiful words you love to use? Words that aren't necessarily thesaurus words, but have a beauty in the written language. Like sapphire or radiant.
                      I'm partial to words that roll off the tongue in harmony with their meaning. I think that is the source of much of the beauty. Sapphire and radiant are two of them.

                      Others,

                      Cacophony rampage crescendo mesmerize repugnant

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                        #41
                        Originally posted by KT Wagner
                        Imagine one of these dumb-it-down editors around to destroy works like Poe's "The Raven". I think there is a line we have to establish as writers when it comes to editing. It's individual but at what point is the integrity of our work destroyed?
                        She is really great about disagreeing but letting me have my way-I give in on little things so I can be insistent about the big ones. We truly have a harmonious balance.
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                          #42
                          sounds like a great editor
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                            #43
                            Originally posted by Shiney View Post
                            Agrees with the above..."And The Ass Saw The Angel" was fantastic...IS fantastic. Gorgeous language. I liked "The Death Of Bunny Monroe," but it wasn't the same.
                            Makes me so happy to hear that, Shiney. "Mah innards" was churning throughout that damn book. It influenced my new novel a lot, too. The Death of Bunny was, one first read, poles apart from the Ass, yet, where the surface level of Ass was so rich and dense, I think with Bunny, Cave cleverly implanted it all unner the skin of the story. And it's safe to say I have been to Butlins holiday camp and there is no better analogy of Hell than that place.

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                              #44
                              Originally posted by KT Wagner
                              That's great C.W. I wasn't talking about your editor - not enough info to judge, not that I would judge an individual on an open forum - but I can see how it might have come across that way.

                              KT
                              I didn't take it that way at all! And I can see how I may have looked defensive but wasn't aiming to. That's the problem with not being able to feel inflection in text!
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                                #45
                                Why haven't we used this nasty little thread in damn near a year? Is there no randomness in the universe worth the converse in this sow's purse? What could be worse? (Is this poetic attempt at thread revival alliteration or simile?)

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