One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you're maybe a little bit ashamed of your short ones. This is like dressing up a household pet in evening clothes. The pet is embarrassed and the person who committed this act of premeditated cuteness should be even more embarrassed.
Stephen KingTag: style writing vocabulary cuteness embarrassing dress-up
Historical Re-creation, he thought glumly, as they picked their way across, under, over or through the boulders and insect-buzzing heaps of splintered timber, with streamlets running everywhere. Only we do it with people dressing up and running around with blunt weapons, and people selling hot dogs, and the girls all miserable because they can only dress up as wenches, wenching being the only job available to women in the olden days.
Terry PratchettTag: women history humour wit historical hobbies dress-up larps reenactment wenches
You cannot score a goal when you are sitting on the bench. To do so, you have to dress up and enter the game.
Israelmore AyivorTag: success lesson goal believe action food-for-thought game excellence dress win achieve extra dress-up extra-mile bench israelmore-ayivor believe-and-achieve score
Pagina 1 di 1.
Data privacy
Imprint
Contact
Diese Website verwendet Cookies, um Ihnen die bestmögliche Funktionalität bieten zu können.