Sometimes I amuse myself with surfing over to dictionary.com and choosing a month of "word of the day" entries. I take these words and arrange them into a bit of creative writing. A short story, a blurb about life in general, whatever feels right. Perhaps it's a bit too structured for creative writing ... but it exercises my brain and gets my words flowing. I may go back every so often to rewrite the piece with less obscure words ... after all, one only uses words like "quotidian" and "bivouac" if they're showing off. ...Or maybe I'll keep them as they are and adopt this style of writing in the Next Great American Novel. (It seemed worthy of capitalization.) Delusions of grandeur, anyone?
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