Clustering Words in Writing
Enjoyable tip for your writing~
You’ve just sipped your last drop of coffee and proceed to write an article or story, searching for crisp ideas, insight, and new words. There are times when a writer may be in need of a new catchy title, innovative articles, creative poems, and unique plots, for (fiction) stories.
General words may be utilized broken down to specific words. Here are some examples:
General Specific
bird Oriole fledgling
wildflower seed field
enjoy relish pleasure
building structure brick
fresh crisp new
uneven jagged bumpy
When a general word (place, animal, thing, etc.) flashes through your mind, jot it down and draw a vertical line (from the word) left side and right side of word, connecting different descriptive words to the bottom of line, then, keep going until you’ve formulated enough satisfactory descriptive words for your writing piece.
Utilizing this simple writing exercise may be a lot of fun; and enhance one’s writing skills. Also, cultivating simple descriptive words into your writing, gives your readers a bright window into your story, poem, or article.
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February 20th, 2012 at 1:46 pm
Use of the Thesaurus is highly recommended!
February 20th, 2012 at 1:49 pm
Useful and informative article.
February 20th, 2012 at 1:50 pm
Thesaurus is good, I use it…however, sometimes, I do this for fun.
February 20th, 2012 at 2:04 pm
i like it
February 20th, 2012 at 2:08 pm
Nice one, Lisa. I do something similar when I’m brainstorming (oops – not very PC these days!!) an idea.
February 20th, 2012 at 4:35 pm
Lisa,this is called combining work with pleasure….Great tips.
February 20th, 2012 at 4:58 pm
Wildflower, Jane, country
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February 20th, 2012 at 10:43 pm
Very useful tips. thanks for the share
February 21st, 2012 at 2:41 am
Very useful tips, thanks for sharing this. ^^,)
February 21st, 2012 at 3:21 am
Nice tips. Thanks.
February 21st, 2012 at 3:49 am
Thank you for this
February 21st, 2012 at 8:22 am
Honestly… when I write an article, I expect a decent reward. that moral satisfaction that people did leave a coment not for the sake of me noticing and comenting back… but…
Thanks!:)
February 22nd, 2012 at 11:11 pm
excellent tips and suggestions which we all can implement!
February 23rd, 2012 at 7:48 pm
Wonderful, it would certainly make our writing more descriptive.
February 24th, 2012 at 6:41 pm
I enjoy exercises like this one. Sometimes I like to use descriptive words from different senses as well. Thanks.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:54 am
Good to learn.
March 6th, 2012 at 6:06 am
thanks..great exercise for a writer