pickSolid and amusing book of writing advice. I won‘t buy it, but I did write down a lot of quotes.
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pickSolid and amusing book of writing advice. I won‘t buy it, but I did write down a lot of quotes.
This book is very good, but has a super irritating design choice—these skinny, multi-page sidebars. I don‘t like sidebars much at the best of times (I am a “read it all in order” person and sidebars mess with an explicit reading order), but these are the worst I‘ve seen. It‘s ridiculous to have to keep turning the pages back and forth!
The Yiddish word nosh (נאש) is comparable to the English word “snack.” Unlike “snack,” which can refer to any food eaten between meals (even carrot sticks), nosh refers to food that is particularly tasty (think: corn chips and cookies), somewhere between an ordinary snack and a treat. Nosh comes from the Yiddish word -nashn, “nibble,“ and its earliest use in English, around 1917, was as a shortened form of nosh-house, or “restaurant.“ #weirdwords
I don‘t know why, but I feel like we‘ve done this word already - I don‘t feel like going through all of the posts to check though 😂🤪 So, still a cool word and if it‘s a repeat, so be it 😂 #weirdwords
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pickHilarious and helpful, Chuck Wendig does what he does best: tells a hell of a story. The book is full of tips, tricks, and examples of how to improve your own narratives.
“We are out to woo our own consciousness.” 🌟
And my list of date 💡 ideas for myself to do this wooing!
….a state of chaos, disarray and confusion
Balagan is a word with a history, having come to Yiddish via the Slavic languages, where it was borrowed from the Persians. In common Yiddish (and, by extension, English and Hebrew) parlance, balagan is a state of chaos, disarray and confusion. The scene of a balagan can be referred to as a chazer shtahl, the equivalent of the English term “pigsty” #weirdwordwednesday #weirdwords
My first thought was something to do with pie 😂 Maybe I was hungry. Anyhoo, came upon this word in my last read (Midwives by Bohjalian, read it people, it‘s amazing), so of course it‘s perfect for #weirdwordswednesday 😊😊
Am giving serious thought to “awakening my creative spirit” through Cameron‘s toolkit. I am thinking other big things for this fall… wish me GODSPEED.
