Myriad? How? Reckoned? What?

 Favourite words and how not to use them!

Except argh.

That is always useable.

 

It’s one of life’s mysteries, or should that be amusements, that some words can be…interpreted differently. In several ways!. Not always in a polite one.

You see, I, and I suspect many other writers have favourite words. Words we use unconsciously—, or indeed on purpose, lots of tinges. Often too many times in a short number of words. 

That might sound find to me, as I read the stuff over, either in my mind, or out loud.

However, it sounds very repetitive to someone who is reading it, who is shall we stay, one step away from the writing.

The number of times, when the great and sorely missed Doris O’Connor read my story after it was finished she’d laugh and say Raven, you’re myriading again. (I had a time where it seemed to creep in everywhere. A lot.) 

As an aside, her favourite thing was to split words that were actually one word. Caretaker was probably the one she split the most. Yes, it can be two words, but it wasn’t where she’d used it.

So one of the things I have to do when I read over is she k for certain things.

As I call it, de-ing, de-ly, de-how, why, what, and so.

A myriad times!

In other words…de-clutter.

Then I send it off to my editor who no doubt shakes her head and highlight all of the above I’ve forgotten.

Happy reading,

And if it’s mine please try not to wince too often,

Love Raven xxx