Hubs and I work from home.
This is what we tell apartment agents when we ask to see two bedroom apartments and town houses.
They always want to know why we need two bedrooms when it’s only us chickens?
Our response is,
I need my space, my quiet space, because writing requires a lot of thinking room which means…
Silence….
while I try to come up with a word to paint a picture on a page without crayons…
I know it’s out there only I just can’t grasp it…
I close my eyes and lose myself inside my head.
I drift off and let my thoughts and emotions take over rather like allowing my protagonist to run with her idea when she shows up on my fiction page unexpectedly and insists on taking over…
The first thing that happens is an easy to access word pops into my head,
the much used word, ‘love’ for example.
I know I can’t use it again because my document tells me I’ve already used it seven times and I need to come up with alternative words…
Are there six alternative words for ‘love’?
Of course!
Do I have them essay-ready at the forefront of my brain?
Not at all, that’s why I have a thesaurus.
Even better, that’s why I have a Thesaurus On My Computer to save me hefting heavy books everywhere I write.
What happens when a word pops into my mind that kind of sort of expresses what I feel…only…there has to be a better, nay, a more accurate word…
How do I find it?
Where do I start when I want to write something that expresses…
A feeling of…
Wanting to do something only in my heart I know I shouldn’t?
I know a word exists to describe the emotion only I have no idea what it is!
I start with ‘want’ and get marvelous words like crave, hanker after, desire, cry out for
Then as I wander along the branches of hanker,
I find, lust, crave, eager, desire
I choose desire because it’s shown up twice and discover yearning, impulse, longing,
Impulse brings me to temptation and my heart flutters. I start to feel warm.
Temptation brings with it appeal, allure, attraction, and…
Enticement, the absolutely, spot on word for what I want.
Just to reassure myself I check its definition in my dictionary (also on my computer) and read:
“Something used to attract or tempt someone: a lure,” and my initial feeling that led to this brilliant word?
Wanting to do something only in my heart I know I shouldn’t?
Enticement is the red crayon in my verbal coloring box that will help to shoulder the burden I am placing on my sentence to paint the perfect picture.
The word that was hidden in my brain somewhere waiting to be coaxed from its slumber and find its way into my document to awaken a dull group of words.
All this wordy work requires peace and quiet if I am to express myself adequately and accurately.
Hubs says I think too much, he calls a spade a spade.
We continue to look at two bedroom apartments!
Well hello there! My name is Vivienne McNeny.
I am an empty nester exploring life as a Boomer…you could say I'm happily Boomering along!
As a homeschooling Mum I have finally quit the job of role model and mentor to my four children. I do what I want to do, eat when I feel like it, enjoy life with my blue eyed cowboy and clean my house once a month or so whether it needs it or not!
In true English form I write about the emergence of my true identity now that I can no longer hide behind my children as their Mum.
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