Comments on: Are You Writing a Dictionary or a Short Story? http://asteriusonline.com/diary/2009/01/06/are-you-writing-a-dictionary-or-a-short-story/ Thoughts on publishing and the writing life Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:33:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Lindsay http://asteriusonline.com/diary/2009/01/06/are-you-writing-a-dictionary-or-a-short-story/comment-page-1/#comment-307 Lindsay Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:59:47 +0000 http://asteriusonline.com/diary/2009/01/06/are-you-writing-a-dictionary-or-a-short-story/#comment-307 I used to spend a lot of time on flexing my vocabulary muscles and trying to create elegant prose, and then I decided that if my pretty words stood between the reader and the story, then it was all for naught. That said, a good storyteller can write a great story even using $20 words. I can't but a good storyteller can, hah. :) I used to spend a lot of time on flexing my vocabulary muscles and trying to create elegant prose, and then I decided that if my pretty words stood between the reader and the story, then it was all for naught.

That said, a good storyteller can write a great story even using $20 words. I can’t but a good storyteller can, hah. :)

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