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This might be unpopular but I’m not going to use simpler vocabulary in my writing if it’s out of character for the narrator. If my POV character is a botanist, he’s going to call a plant by its name. If you don’t know what it is you can either Google it or move on just knowing it’s a plant of some sort.

I just had a debate with myself over using the word mezzanine, wondering if I should describe it instead. Ultimately I decided the character would call it a mezzanine, and therefore readers could look up a new word if they didn't know.

my favorite thing relevant to this is when a dumb character uses regional or obscure words completely casually, but i have to look them up. To me it's a big weird word, but to the silly town drunk in a story what else are you supposed to call that thing??

Encountering words you don't understand is how vocabularies get expanded.

Too many people have completely bare walls. You gotta put stuff on your walls. Even if you can't paint or put holes in the walls, there are renter friendly solutions like command strips. Speaking as someone who has only recently started hanging stuff up, it'll make your home feel more like your own space instead of somewhere you're just temporarily existing in and that has a huge impact on your mental health.

i just think it really says something about Sir Terry's view of the world etc. that every time he puts a character in front of you and posits them as The Good One, it's never the character who always thinks good things. it's the one who has grit in their soul and thinks bad things but never lets the inner bastard win.

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