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Every day “A.Word.A.Day” lands in my email inbox. Anu Garg and team produce this and other resources as part of Wordsmith.org: Wordsmith is a worldwide online community of people who share […]
Tag Archives: vocabulary
Hart Crane
One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper patterns at the right moment. Hart Crane, poet (1899-1932)
Make Something: Sound
“Make something that makes a sound on its own.” At Day 283 of 365 in this journey, precious few times have I “cheated” by not exactly following the prompt and/or […]
Make Something: Spam
Today’s make something assignment was to draw inspiration from the spam email in my inbox. I have no shortage of that. I get dozens of junk messages in my email […]
Make Something: Portmanteau
As much as I’m enjoying venturing into less familiar creative territories, I find myself nearly giddy when the make something prompt relates to writing. Like today: “Create a portmanteau and use it.” […]
Make Something: Visual Definition
Create a visual definition for a word chosen randomly from a dictionary. When I discovered that this was today’s make something prompt, I wanted a word I didn’t know. I […]
Challenging Words
Day 98 prompt: Challenge/Challenging (a haiku) logophiles without dictionaries aggravate their Words with Friends foes
Beth Nyland 