If you are sitting in front of your computer screen and regardless of the reassuring absence of underline a word simply looks wrong then one of two things is happening to you.
1. You are finally really looking at a word you have taken horribly for granted since you were five.
2. Brain Freeze
The correct response to either of these situations is to do the dishes. This blog post may or may not be directed to my teenage offspring.
I am currently re-reading The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury.
It’s a book that I recommend to every writer.
It is a collection of masterful short stories held together by an eerie overarching narrative. It’s by turns engaging and disturbing. Something for everyone.
” The sun was gone. Now the first stars were shining and the moon had brightened the fields of grass and wheat. Still the Illustrated man’s pictures glowed like charcoals in the half light, like scattered rubies and emeralds, with Rouault colours and Picasso colours and long pressed out El Greco bodies.
“So people fire me when my pictures move. They don’t like it when violent things happen in my illustrations…”
Try
http://www.thesaurus.com
A searchable dictionary and thesaurus which will give you all the synonyms and antonyms your heart desires.
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