Are You Making Resolutions For the New Year?

If so, which ones are most important to you?

I'm still considering mine.

Opinions?

I receive a weekly e-mail newsletter from Creative Screenwriting. They always have quotes at the top from writers and screenwriters.

I love the quotes. There have been some good ones.

One of the quotes in today's newsletter was from Stephen King.

"Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word.
There are no exceptions to this rule."
– Stephen King

I often see writers using big, sophisticated words.

I often compare myself to them and think my writing is too simple and unsophisticated.

Am I stupid? I don't think so. I have a college degree. Do I know big words? Yes. And, I know how to use them. I just tend to write in a pretty straight-forward manner. No convoluted phrases. No purple prose.

So, it's interesting to me to see a quote like that from Stephen King, someone who is such a big name writer.

How do you folks feel about it? What does that quote mean to you?

Pleased

I wrote a couple of new scenes tonight that I think have potential.

Over 1,300 words, but I don't really have the energy to post meters and such tonight. :)

I hope I'll continue them tomorrow and that they'll inspire me on other work I need to do.

Good night, Live Journal.

Hope everyone sleeps well.