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queenoftheskiesI 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?
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?
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