Tips, tricks, descriptions and new words!

@acancello

Wow!! Those are cool! Yeah, I’ve been trying to get better at describing situations in my book as well. I like to look up ‘descriptive words for –‘ whatever I needed, and just reading them helps me to remember them for future reference. Also, if you copy and paste them into a doc, you can review them when you need it. That’s what I do, lol.

I found a few words too!

1. Diminutive- Means extremely or unusually small.

2. Exultant- Triumphantly happy.

3. Gregarious- Someone fond of company; sociable.

4. Jocular-  Someone fond of, or characterized by joking…humorous and/or playful.

5. Jubilant-  Similar to Exultant; Feeling or expressing great happiness and triumph

6. Magnanimous-  Generous or forgiving, especially toward a rival or less powerful person.mellow

@anybody-who-happens-to-be-on-this-topic Cool!

I thought of the word ‘Inexorable’, it means impossible to prevent or stop; unrelenting.

@acancello so I have a whole book on crazy words (that I can’t get to at the moment) but I’ll have to share a few on here!

So I’m a descriptivist. Meaning that I believe that language is changes, and that can’t nor should be changed. This is where accents come from, because of subtle changes, then those become dialects, then languages. Scriptivism is the opposite where one believes that language has must have formal rules that should never be deviated from. One just embraces the chaos of language, where the other tries to slow and temper it. Why I bring this up is because many will say “well that’s not a word”. You know those people, they’ll tell you “it’s whom actually”, or “it’s the alien and I, not me and the alien”. Such people fall under Scriptivism. Scriptivism has value in things like mathematics and other sciences, where defined rigor is vital to communicate a point without any uncertainty. When it comes to language and literature however, I offer an alternative. When you write something down, then ask “Wait? Is this a word?” you have full power to say “well, it is now”. You don’t want to do this much when it comes to college essays and stuff, because most academia lives under the hood of scriptivism, with the exception of many linguists. When writing however, know that your the author, and how you communicate in your terminology and grammar is up to you. Obviously don’t start making a bunch of words up out of nowhere, unless that’s an intentional part of your writing, like Jabberwocky. Just simply know that what is and isn’t a word isn’t so black and white, no matter how much schools will tell you otherwise.

@acancello

Oh, nice topic, thanks! Those are some cool description words you found!

My favorite for description isn’t necessarily words, but I think it still counts?

I like to describe physical things with emotions… it’s pretty hard to find a way to do it, but when in the perfect scene, it’s kinda op imo 🤣

Flopping over onto the covers, she buries her face into the blankets. Rough with age, but soft with the memories of childhood. Lesli feels the blanket in front of her eyes run hot with her own tears. Her breath returns to her with each exhale, warming her face.

The comparison of the blankets physical roughness and emotional softness has gotta be one of my favorite lines I’ve ever written. 😀

Oh and I also like to try to use lighting descriptions to show connections between characters. This is kinda a knew thing I’ve been trying. Because my oc’s Tauren and Lesli are close friends, when they are in the mines together, I describe their headlight beams intersecting when they look at eachother. and Lesli’s headlight reflecting off of Tauren’s glasses. Idk, there’s just so much you can do with it.