How to playfully expand your word power
It is not possible to write professionally without words. Without words you are like a bird that cannot sing. Therefore, the first duty of a writer consists of expanding his word power. Ideally, you should be able to catapult your word power to the top in a very short time span. But to make this dream come true, does a method exist that is playful, full of fun and, additionally, really works?
There is!
After reading this report you will know:
○ What fascinating and utterly new method exists to really expand your own word power immediately - without the “hard work”
○ What other master-method you can use in addition to expand your word power right now
○ What technique a world bestseller author used to expand his word power in practically no time
○ Which dictionaries are especially best for writers
○ Which special books cause your word power to explode suddenly
○ What the most important books are that you should have read as a writer
○ How you can be a master in relation to the word
This report is indispensable for writers! You will know methods which will immediately give you an advantage. You will jump from a normal pen-pusher into the Olympus of the real writer-gods.
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We could start a long list of criteria and all sorts of wild speculations as to what makes a book “good” and what makes a writer an artist. But all the pundits are unanimous on one thing - a professional has an extensive vocabulary and an impressive lexical arsenal at his beck and call. Notes are to the musician as words are to the pen-pusher. Words are the tools of the writing trade. So I would like to introduce the fundamental tools of the trade to you, the relevance of which cannot be overemphasized. I hold some surprises in store for you. There are methods and approaches to learning words so quickly and rapidly that the learning is pure pleasure.
“Actors are so lucky!” is a lament I’ve often heard from writers. An actor has recourse to gestures, mimicry and language, can modulate words, can chew on them, can growl like a bear or chirp like a cricket. In a nutshell, actors can avail themselves of methods and means that are simply out of the reach of the wordsmith or writer. Only the poor poet has, as her sole tool, the naked word, and it is required of her that she displays as much virtuosity with this lone tool as a concert pianist does with a Steinway.
There’s no disputing that the word is the tool the writer relies on. Experts use this touchstone to determine whether they are dealing with a professional, someone who can juggle words easily, who can conjure up words like rabbits out of a top hat, or whether they are dealing with a pen-pusher of doubtful talent, one who is ecstatic when he, by some whim of Fortuna, happens to stumble over a well-turned phrase he can use. So cultivate your language and learn new words constantly - new words in English, as if you were trying to learn a foreign language!
Thankfully, there are several outstanding methods for learning words that are also loads of fun. First of all, you have to understand that, without the tools of your trade, without words, you are mute. You are a bird that can’t sing. With the aid of words, you can transmit ideas, thoughts and representations. Your imagination, which might potentially enable you to create heretofore-unseen galaxies from nothing, can only be of use to you to the extent that you can formulate, communicate, and perform gymnastics with words. Telepathy may very well be an extraordinarily fascinating matter, but it puts the writer out of work. Her medium is language and the written word. Imagination may be the rider, but its horse is language. And the most talented jockey is helpless and useless without a horse. So how can you expand your vocabulary rapidly?
Begin by learning the art of listening and immediately absorbing words.
Were you aware that Luther based his literary career on having “read the common people’s lips?” So can you, too, make a game out of listening closely, snapping up new words and then using them at the very next opportunity. Listen carefully for every unfamiliar word.
For example, let’s assume that you happen to run into your neighbor and that your conversation turns to an article in the local paper about a thief who broke into a house two streets down. Your neighbor mentions this incident and informs you that she considers the aforementioned thief to be nothing more than a common footpad and a rogue, although he fancies himself a swashbuckler.
Fantastic!
This is a wonderful opportunity to steal words. Your neighbor has used the words “footpad” and “swashbuckler.” Perhaps you already know these words - in fact, you most probably do know them. The only thing is that you have never used these words yourself.
On the sly, like a thief, you now incorporate these words into your speaking repertoire; you adopt these words as part of your vocabulary and use them immediately. Do you see? You perk up your ears and pilfer words directly from the lips of others. I promise you that your life will become more exciting and colorful than it ever has been. You will be soaking up words like a sponge and using them at the next best opportunity.
Do you know how cinematographers operate? They slice their piece of reality out for themselves. By this I mean that they continually look through an imaginary camera lens, not seeing the world as it is, but rather as it could be portrayed on the silver screen. For example, if they take a stroll down a boulevard lined with maple trees, they see in their mind’s eye a continuous flow of potential, interesting perspectives that they could capture on celluloid - instead of perceiving the trees in detail.
Slice a piece of reality for yourself. Don’t only pay attention to what people say, how large their ears are or the shape of their legs, but pay particular attention to which words they use. You’ll make the most fascinating discoveries and will have a whole new take on language. Another discovery awaiting you is that there are numerous “languages.” There are languages only spoken by senior citizens, just as there are twenty-something languages. When I was younger, it was popular to express your approval by saying, “Far out, man!”
Do you know how teenagers express their approval nowadays? They say, “How sweet, my posse!” - with a straight face, of course.
By all means, steal these expressions too. Don’t be shy or inhibited. Learn all the languages you can, the teenage slang as well as scientific jargon. Chat like a Californian. Drawl like a Texan. Learn “hardboiled” slang, and refer to “grands” or “k’s” if you mean a thousand dollar bill. Wallow in academic jargon as well. Cast off any and every arrogance you might have regarding language. Languages and words are colorful and diverse. There is an overpowering and fascinating wealth of them. Don’t be afraid to use gutter slang. You’re a writer, not a grade-school teacher! Soak up words like a sponge. Perk up your ears in every conversation, snap up crisp new bits of language, digest them and use, use these words!
You’ll be identified as a writer once the “image” is right and you’re using interesting words and unusual expressions, when your tongue has become agile enough to use them appropriately, in other words. You’ll also become fantastically extroverted. So please, before you continue reading, snag yourself someone to talk to, hang on her every word, snap up a few words that you have never used before and use them in that very conversation.
In so doing, you continuously add new words to your vocabulary. This method has a highly valuable added advantage of making it possible to create interesting and realistic characters, another bread-and-butter tool of the writer’s trade. Nothing puts flesh and bones on characters and types as clearly and conclusively as the right vocabulary. Granted, you can mark a character by means of his peppermint aroma, an uncontrolled tic at the corner of his mouth or an enormous, aquiline nose. But, I can’t stress it enough; the most sure-fire method for building characterization is language. Characters and types exist not only in plays and novels, but also in real life. If you actively register the language and vocabulary of a single person at the source, that’s half the battle, sometimes even the whole war, when it comes to putting the role of a character on paper.
Do you understand? The painstaking observation of language also helps you to recognize characters and record peculiarities. It’s now in your own best interest to continue learning words systematically.
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