She Who Writes From The Void

to try to include in your next poem/story

Ambsace - something worthless or unlucky

Boscage - a growth of trees or shrubs; thicket

Callipygian - having shapely buttocks

Deasil - clockwise

Effluvium - an invisible emanation, especially: an offensive exhalation or smell

Floruit - a period of flourishing

Gueridon - a small usually ornately carved and embellished stand or table

Ipseity - individual identity; selfhood

Jorum - a large drinking vessel or its contents

Legerity - alert facile quickness of mind or body

Messaline - a soft lightweight silk dress fabric with a satin weave

Nosegay - a small bunch of flowers

Oblectation - pleasure, satisfaction, delight

Perlustrate - to go through and examine thoroughly

Rupicolous - living among, inhabiting, or growing on rocks

Sacchariferous - producing or containing sugar

Tinctorial - imparting color

Veridical - truthful, veracious

Wakerife - wakeful, alert

Xerarch - developing in a dry place

for your next poem/story

Adarnech - colour like gold

Albyn - white

Argentine - silver

Ashied - made white

Aureat - golden

Bicollede - blackened

Blackbrown - brunette

Blewing - blue paint

Bleye - blue

Brune - brown

Camet - silver

Ende - a blue colour

Falwe - yellow

Florrey - a blue dye

Gaudy green - a light green colour

Ginger - a pale red colour

Gold-hewen - of a golden colour

Gridelin - a sort of colour composed of white and red

Grisard - grey

Grizle - a darkish grey

Inde - azure-coloured

Minim - a kind of brown tawny colour

Parvenke - a pink

Pear-coloured - red

Purpuring - having a purple colour

Sangronie - blood-red colour

Shay - a light colour

True blue - the best blue colour

Tuly - a kind of red or scarlet colour

Umber - a sort of brown colour

Vermaile - red

Virent - green, unfaded

Watchet - a pale blue colour

Whity brown - a pale dusky brown

Yvor - ivory

A devil of a time — very difficult or causing a lot of trouble

Better the devil you know than the devil you don't — used to say that it is better to deal with a difficult person or situation one knows than with a new person or situation that could be worse

Between the devil and the deep blue sea — faced with two equally objectionable alternatives

Devil among the tailors — a firework that emits sparks, stars, and finally whirling imps

Devil-fire — will-o'-the wisp (i.e., a light that sometimes appears in the night over marshy ground and is often attributable to the combustion of gas from decomposed organic matter; a deceptive goal or hope); Saint Elmo's fire (i.e., a flaming phenomenon sometimes seen in stormy weather at prominent points on an airplane or ship and on land that is of the nature of a brush discharge of electricity)

Devil lore — demonology; often: a body of folk belief and custom concerning evil spirits or devils

Devil-may-care — easygoing, carefree

Devil to pay — severe consequences 

Devil's advocate — a person who champions the less accepted cause for the sake of argument

Devil's food cake — a rich chocolate cake

Devil's mass — indiscriminate cursing

Devil's tattoo — a drumming with or as if with fingers or feet

Devil theory —  a theory of history: political and social crises arise from the deliberate actions of evil or misguided leaders rather than as a natural result of conditions

Sell one's soul to the devil — to gain wealth, success, power, etc., by doing something bad or dishonest

Speak/talk to the devil — used in speech to say that someone one has been talking about has unexpectedly appeared

Most often used to describe a happy and successful time in the past that is remembered as being better than today. 

It can also mean “calm, peaceful” or “prosperous, affluent.”

Halcyon has drifted along contentedly in English for centuries, but it hatched from a tumultuous story. 

According to Greek mythology, Alkyone, the daughter of the god of the winds, became so distraught over her husband Ceyx’s death at sea that she threw herself into the ocean to join him.

The gods were moved by the couple’s love, and took pity on them by turning them into halcyon birds, a bird identified with the kingfisher (Kingfishers are known for plunging into water after prey.) 

According to the legend, the birds built their nests on the sea, which so charmed Alkyone’s father that he created a period of unusual calm that lasted until the birds’ eggs hatched.

Our word halcyon reflects the story in multiple ways. 

When halcyon was first used in English in the 14th century it was as a noun referring to the mythical bird, and later to actual kingfishers as well. 

to try to include in your next poem/story

Alpestrine - growing at high elevations but not above the timber line

Breloque - a seal or charm for a watch chain

Cairngorm - a light-colored, usually yellowish smoky quartz that is used as a gemstone

Dactylogram - an impression taken from a finger

Electuary - confection

Fiduciary - held or founded in trust or confidence

Gasconade - bravado, boasting

Heliacal - relating to or near the sun—used especially of the last setting of a star before and its first rising after invisibility due to conjunction with the sun

Intenerate - to make tender; soften

Interamnian - situated between or enclosed by rivers

Jactance - vainglorious boasting

Kermesse - a fair held usually for charitable purposes

Latria - the supreme homage that is given to God alone

Melopoeia - melody

Nepenthe - a potion used by the ancients to induce forgetfulness of pain or sorrow; something capable of causing oblivion of grief or suffering

Obtenebrate - to darken by or as if by shadowing

Phaeism - incomplete melanism in a butterfly

Retroussé - turned up

Serein - mist or fine rain falling from an apparently clear sky

Ustulation - the action of burning or searing

Wordplay

Typically defined as “verbal wit” or, putting it another way, using words in a clever or fun way.

For example, a commonly cited example of wordplay is the pun. A pun humorously uses a word with multiple different meanings and/or different words with similar sounds.

An example of a pun could be I don’t play cards with big cats because they are all cheetahs.

Types of Wordplay

There are many different types of wordplay out there. But not all varieties of wordplay even have names. Often, a poet does something entirely new and witty with words that has never been done before. That is the fun of wordplay—you can play around and see what kinds of fun things you make! Here are a few examples of different types of poetic wordplay that have names:

Palindrome: A word or line that reads the same forward and backward.

Pangram: A line or poem that includes every letter of the alphabet.

Alliteration: Using words that start with the same letter or similar sounding beginnings.

Rhyme: Using words that have similar sounds, especially endings.

Assonance: Using similar-sounding vowel sounds to rhyme.

Consonance: Using similar-sounding consonant sounds to rhyme.

Onomatopoeia: Using words that sound like what they mean.

Oxymoron: Creating a phrase using words that don’t seem to go well together.

Neologism: Creating new words.

Portmanteau: Combining two words together.

Chiasmus: Reversing the order of words in parallel lines.

Kenning: Using a metaphorical or poetic phrase to refer to something.

I do only remember having two, or at least since I stopped trying to act like they were something else.

Everyone has a different experience with the aftermath of them, but I feel in most stories I've read it's almost like the panic attack stops and everything is fine again, and in my experiences it isn't.

Perhaps I also simply notice more things about it, considering that I use sensory to ground myself, but that isn't the point.

I don't want to rant on about useless background information so here are:

A few things I personally think should be talked about more regarding the aftermath or beforehand of having a Panic Attack

Sweat. Something I almost imideatly notice when I snap out of my panic attacks is the uncomfortable feeling of sweat making my clothes practically cling to my body. I don't notice while I'm having the panic attack, considering that obviously I'm not down to earth, however after I will feel like a wet fish on land.

Speaking. Most of the time I've seen so many people write the characters to immediately be able to talk properly again, which in my experience isn't like that. It's most likely a well-known fact that during a panic attack you literally can't speak, even if you tried to force yourself to do so you just for some reason can't, outside for maybe a few muttered words and shaky whispers, and just because a panic attack ends doesn't mean it's immediately fine again. My voice tends to tremble and I can't speak loudly without having to stop mid sentence, it gradually gets better but for me it atleast takes 10 minutes to fully regain my voice.

This is just a personal thing, but I tend to hyperfocus on little details over and over again trying to avoid getting lost in my mind. Panic attacks are scary, you don't want them to happen, which is why you'll most likely over concentrate on grounding, from my own experience it helps little and can be even more stressing. I especially find myself doing this while on the verge of having a panic attack.

Heartbeat. Perhaps this one is very obvious but your heart is RACING. It isn't something people miss, but I wish people would describe the feeling of dread at hearing your heart fasten more and more as you know "I know it's going to happen" more (Ew I used more way to much here) After a panic attack your heart will slowly fade back to being normal, but it doesn't immediately happen.

Triggers. Panic attacks don't always get triggered by big things. Of course this solely depends on the character in the end, but I've had panic attacks over minor things such as backhanded comments about sensitive topics. It was fine, it hurt and then your thoughts start rolling out of control. Oh, you can already feel how it's going to happen, but you're to scared to say anything, because the reason is so minuscule why should it matter? This more a thing about panic attacks that happen due to escalating intrusive thoughts more than anything but most of the time you will try to dismiss the issue, you will feel horrible about everything you do and you know you need help (if this happened before) but you're scared that it was just overreacting.

Of course I'm not a medical professional, and this is more about my own experiences, this is not a rule to writing characters with panic attacks, it's just some personal things that I've experienced that barely get represented or talked about.

Almost no one will experience panic attacks like I do and for the reason I do, because we aren't the same person. Heck, my panic attacks always have differences. Sometimes I might have a lot of messy not even full breaths that you barely hear and other times I will try taking deep breaths that will just choke out due to sobs and are ugly loud.