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Wordsmithy: Hot Tips for the Writing Life | Douglas Wilson
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"Wordsmithy is for writers of every sort, whether experienced veterans, still just hoping, or somewhere in between. Through a series of out-of-the-ordinary lessons, each with its own takeaway points and recommended readings, Douglas Wilson provides indispensable guidance, showing how to develop the writer's craft and the kind of life from which good writing comes."~Publisher.
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RosePressedPages
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1. F*ck
2. Uffda
3. Bag (but with a Minnesotan accent lol. I get ragged on a lot by coworkers)
@dabbe #TLT

dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 6mo
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Sresendez12
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78 words for #teamharkness! I ran out of time, but got us some points!

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RinaBrahmbhattBarot
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Pickpick

Happy Wednesday...midweek 🙂

#WOTD such a mouthful but fun 🙂

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StayCurious
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#WinterGames Team #ReadNosedReindeer Gotta add those points to this week‘s totals! @Clwojick +441!

j9brown Nice!!! 4y
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Karisa
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App
Ah
Haha
Day
Days
Holy
Solid
Say
Says
Said
Pop
Paid
Hid
Sol
Sap
Pay
Pays
Pops
Lid
Oh
Soy
His
Ohs
Has

22 and counting...

#WinterGames #TMSkellington @Crimson613 @StayCurious @Clwojick

Karisa Dial, daily, sad, sadly, solid (5) 4y
coffees 146pts so far!! 12-11 4y
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InBooksILive
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1) Year
2) Same
3) City
4) Heat
5) Hair
6) Stem
7) Cash
8) Share
9) Steam
10) Ram
11) Chair
12) Earth
13) Shy
14) Mast
15) Rat

#wintergames team #TheFilthyAnimals @rather_be_reading
@StayCurious @Clwojick

rather_be_reading 46pts 🤶 4y
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StayCurious
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#WinterGames Team #ReadNosedReindeer My proof that I did it! @Clwojick

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EH2018
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#wintergames this one looks like fun!! Thanks @MidnightBookGirl #slaybells

EH2018 1. Year 2. Same 3. City 4. Heat 5. Hair 6. Stem 7. Cash 8. Share 9. Mist 10. Ram 11. Chair 12. Earth 13. Shy 14. Mast 15. Rat 4y
MidnightBookGirl Looks good to me! 46 pts! 4y
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ShananigansReads
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#hellothursday
1. Huzzah! I‘m also partial to haberdasher but find very few chances to use it.
2. Aristocracy I pronounce it wrong in my head every time I read it and have to correct myself. Aristo- kracy is not a word🤣
3. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious obvi😉
4. Shibby, wittle, broctrees which is 2 year old for 🥦
5. Hi Littens! I hope you are having a great day! 👋🏾

wanderinglynn Great words! Thanks for playing! 💜 5y
TheAromaofBooks Oh my gosh, SAME on aristocracy! That is a word that is pronounced wrong in real life! 5y
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SW-T
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Was scrolling through Twitter and saw this WORD bookstore job posting. Thought I‘d share.

Operations Director; Jersey City, NJ and Brooklyn, NY, United States

https://www.shelf-awareness.com/jobboard/2019-01-11/operations_director.html

mcipher I‘m the wrong kind of unicorn, sadly. But hopefully someone else fits! 5y
SW-T @mcipher I hope so too! 5y
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LeslieO
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I‘m not sure this is me but I like it. #bookriot

robinb I‘ve always loved that word! Maybe it‘s just a southern thing?! 🤣 5y
Endowarrior21 My Pop Pop used to say that 😍😍😍😍 5y
robinb @Endowarrior21 my grandparents too❤️ 5y
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Nessavamusic
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1. Emma
2. Mrs. Frisby & the Rats of NIMH
3. One Day
4. Marley & Me
5. Seinfeld
6. Al Gore
7. Charlene Li
8. J.T. Geissinger
9. Victoria Thompson
10. Blue Balliet
11. Nora Roberts, J.D. Robb
12. Vanessa & Virginia
13. George R.R. Martin
🌟Agnes & the Hitman, Jennifer Crusie and Bob Mayer
#namegame @Kaye

Kaye Very good. Great answer of Al Gore. I kept trying to think of 2 letter names for that and couldn‘t come up with one. Thanks for participating. 🌟 6y
BookishMe Yay for 11! 6y
readinginthedark Agnes & the Hitman is such a fun book! 6y
Nessavamusic It is, I love Jennifer Crusie 6y
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stargazerblue49

That moment when you use a big word and then you worry that you used it incorrectly so you have to go google the definition to make sure that you don‘t sound like an arse 🙀 #anxiety #bookworldproblems

Redwritinghood Yup. Been there. 😂😂 6y
MarriedtoMrT Totally done that. 6y
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wellreadredhead
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1. Selective
2. Controlled
3. Cultural

What a fun prompt! I‘ve been trying to cut down on the number of books I hoard lately to explain my first two answers. I read them and pass them on if I don‘t absolutely love them!

Quasifesto Thanks! I wanted to make some short enough to be enticing to busy workers/readers. I too have recently learned the joys of passing along books and practicing, shall we say, “quality control.” 6y
Tamra @Quasifesto apt description, “quality control.” 6y
Avanders I also pass on books when I've finished reading them... my *unread* tbr collection is still a bit out of hand, though 😁 (edited) 6y
wellreadredhead @Avanders Same here. I buy them and never have enough time to read all of them! 6y
Avanders @collegecatlady yep... it's becoming problematic. Again. 😁😘 6y
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SassyBookworm Truth 🙌🏻 6y
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Clwojick
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#wordoftheday I fell asleep last night listening to the rain and it was perfect.

Caroline2 Ohhh yeahhh I love it when it rains! ☔️ 😊 but only when I'm cozy in doors, if I have to go out anywhere, esp the school run then it sucks!!!! 😂 7y
Avanders Fellow pluviophile ☺️🌧⛈🌩☔️☺️ 7y
Linear Who new 7y
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amybeth Absolutely love the rain, not driving in it persay but it puts me in a lovely mood ☺️ 7y
RealBooks4ever In it or inside, I love the rain! 💜🌧💜 7y
Eggs At last a word that's perfect for me! Now if the atmosphere would supply the pluvia to take away the sting of a Long string of 100 degree days...Rain centers me🙂🙂 7y
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Whatannareads
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Marchpane All I can come up with is "litter". "Hang on a sec, I've just got to litter about this plot twist". Too bad it's already a word ? 7y
Redwritinghood I always tell my kids I'm litsying and I'll be with them in a minute. 7y
drokka Both tweeting and twittering (Yes, I was using twitter when it was called twittering) were actual words too. They've just come to mean something in addition to their original meanings. 7y
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sara.the.librarian I really like the sound of "blurbing" (which my phone just tried to autocorrect to blurring....) 7y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks My daughter says "oh, you must be on Litsy." Eyes rolling ? lol!! My husband calls it lipsy ?? 7y
DeborahSmall @Redwritinghood I tell kids I'm Litsying too 👍🏼💕 7y
Whatannareads Haha 🙈😂 I love all you comments especially @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 7y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Whatannareads 🤣😂 my family can be really comical 😃 7y
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MrBook
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Hmmm, makes sense. Sounds legit to me. 😂👏🏻 #LitsyHumor

Bookzombie 😂😂 7y
drokka So men who use this have elves living in their oxters? I wonder how that goes during knoodling 7y
Louise How can they be so sure they aren't gnomes? 🤔 7y
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Crystalblu I'm pretty sure that is the whole reason my husband uses this brand 😜 7y
ReadingRover Yasssss!!!!! 7y
JulAnna I've been buying this brand for my husband for years and never noticed this! 😂 7y
Lwiesman I guess that is why both my son and husband use this brand!😂 7y
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beagle.mama
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Says so much about me. #truth

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Christy
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A quick, bracing book about writing.

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