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I’m not superstitious, but I am a little stitious. ~~Michael Scott
I think I just really understand what it is to feel like you don't fit in, within your society, within your world, within your family, within whatever. I've always felt like an odd duck so I really understood that. ~~Anya Taylor-Joy
Eucatastrophe --A sudden, favorable resolution of events in a story. That cheesy happy ending you saw coming from a mile away in every rom-com ever written? That’s a eucatastrophe. Example: All good fairy tales end with a eucatastrophe, no matter how convoluted the story.
Festinate--Hasty or last-minute. If you thrive under pressure, you’re probably familiar with throwing together a festinate essay or meal! Example: Did she just festinate her newsletter? (Nope!)
Imparadise--To make supremely happy; to transport with delight or joy. We suggest learning how to imparadise someone before Valentine’s Day this year. Example: “Thus these two imparadised in one another's arms.” (John Milton, Paradise Lost)
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I love odd or unusual words. The ones my hubby gives me a funny look after I use one, and then asks what does that five dollar word mean?
Or, I also like coming up with altogether new words for something. My latest one was a 'word-weasle'. I meant to say garden weasel, which is a weeding tool. But I was in the middle of an edit and word-weasle is what came out. You know what one is! The lastest and greatest editing tool. Right? Don't we all need one?
Have you ever used the 'read aloud' function on a word document? When 'the computer' doesn't recognize a word, it can really fracture it! Makes it easy to pick up on errors-- when you stop laughing. The last book I edited had numerous Hawaiian words in it. My computer didn't know what to do. Poor thing was so confused. I'll give it credit for trying, but--what a mess!
There have been a bunch of books that I've read lately where the authors are from England. It's fun to read them because many words are 'English' versus 'American,' and I have to stop and figure out what they are saying, what the character means. Sometimes, I haven't a clue! Good thing Google exists!
We joke, hubby and I, about our 'word for the day.' We try to come up with a new one pretty much every day. He absolutely LOVES coming up with one I don't know! Makes his day, for sure! The last one he came up with was 'Defenestrate.' He had a crazy grin when he used it. He was fighting with his computer which was being very difficult. He threatened to defenestrate it. Glad he didn't throw it through the window which was what he was threatening to do! I had no clue. I knew it wouldn't be a good thing, whatever it was. But the very fact that we have a word for that action is funny in and of itself!
One of the words in the list above, eucatastrophe, was a new one for me. Who knew that is what we were aiming for at the end of the book? I can just hear myself saying, 'I need a really eucatestrophic ending to my book!' Too funny.
Hopefully this edition of my newsy made you smile. At least in my neck of the woods, it is way too hot to do much else.
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Mara ♣ McBain   says: I love the analogy! That hubby of yours came in handy as usual! Great newsletter!
One Solitary Voice  writes: Love the garden analogy, the irony is it's always work, work, work, even in the replanning and preparation phase. turning the soil and other pre-planting things etc. I've been busy attempting to create a castle for my digitized Exo-self who never sleeps to live in as a secondary home away from WDC. (Just a little place to call my own. It may only be a silly web-site and blog, but it's my Virtual Castle and a beautiful one at that, (Literally every page background is going to have an image of a section/room of the castle) I am the exo King of my My helper AI did a fantastic job on the imagry. I'm almost ready to get down to doing the real work and populating (furnishing) my castle with stories, poems, essays and anything else I can think of. I just hope I don't fall into the mote that I stocked full of piranha .
Beholden   comments: Thank you very much for including my article, A Scent of Lavender, among your Editor's Picks section. Your comparison of book-writing to gardening is, for me, uncomfortably close and makes me wonder whether my problem of brown thumbs is more extensive than I had thought!
Max Griffin 🏳️🌈  says: Great newsletter. For me, "fertilizing" sometimes means adding "Easter eggs" to my stories. For example, I just named the crime boss in a story Oswald Mandius...his girlfriend calls him Ozzie. I think most readers will miss the reference, but it's fun for me, and helps keep me motivated.
ARGH!!!!!!!!
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