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My blog theme for this month is Words.
So my first post is about just that, words. According to Wikipedia, ‘a word is the smallest free form in a language, in contrast to a morpheme, which is the smallest unit of meaning.’
But you and I know better. As writers, we know that words are everything. I find often that it’s not the amount of words that give a book or story meaning but the use of the words that are there.
Whether a story is good or bad often comes down to the use of one or two words and how they are put together. I have played with words for hours sometimes to find just the right words in the right combination to say what I want to say. Other times they come in the manner that Joan Baez described: “The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page."
So today I give you the word, the beginning and ending of our ability to communicate our higher ideas to our fellow men.
"It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless."
- Lewis Mumford
So my first post is about just that, words. According to Wikipedia, ‘a word is the smallest free form in a language, in contrast to a morpheme, which is the smallest unit of meaning.’
But you and I know better. As writers, we know that words are everything. I find often that it’s not the amount of words that give a book or story meaning but the use of the words that are there.
Whether a story is good or bad often comes down to the use of one or two words and how they are put together. I have played with words for hours sometimes to find just the right words in the right combination to say what I want to say. Other times they come in the manner that Joan Baez described: “The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page."
So today I give you the word, the beginning and ending of our ability to communicate our higher ideas to our fellow men.
"It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless."
- Lewis Mumford