First, let me make this clear: I do not, now or ever, want to be linked to Remus PoV stories in which he refers to himself as any variety of werewolf, from honey-headed to jackal-headed to block-headed to plain. Some things just hurt too much.
But, actually, that's my point. I'd read stories containing any of those descriptions if certain authors wrote them, and I'd read any stories containing certain of those descriptions, because I'd actually sort of like a scene in which teenage Remus smacks his own forehead and calls himself a block-headed werewolf.
And that's my point. If I have a nefarious purpose at all for these posts, it's to make other people as conscious of these words as I am. I think most of them can be used and used well by good writers; the problem comes about when writers get dependent on them and stop using any other word.
But this wasn't intended for good writers to read. Especially not ones who aren't all that good at ignoring the carping, whining voices of critics (for example, my voice). I don't want to change your writing; I want to whine and, maybe, make people laugh. So please, please don't read cut-tagged posts (I cut tag everything that I consider critical or overlong) if what I say might influence your writing. Because I like you the way you are, and I like your vocabulary, too.
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But, actually, that's my point. I'd read stories containing any of those descriptions if certain authors wrote them, and I'd read any stories containing certain of those descriptions, because I'd actually sort of like a scene in which teenage Remus smacks his own forehead and calls himself a block-headed werewolf.
And that's my point. If I have a nefarious purpose at all for these posts, it's to make other people as conscious of these words as I am. I think most of them can be used and used well by good writers; the problem comes about when writers get dependent on them and stop using any other word.
But this wasn't intended for good writers to read. Especially not ones who aren't all that good at ignoring the carping, whining voices of critics (for example, my voice). I don't want to change your writing; I want to whine and, maybe, make people laugh. So please, please don't read cut-tagged posts (I cut tag everything that I consider critical or overlong) if what I say might influence your writing. Because I like you the way you are, and I like your vocabulary, too.