Now that the holiday is finally over I’ve been able to get down to some serious, and some not so serious reading. I’m particularly fascinated by Mark Forsyth’s The Etymologicon. As writers we have to be interested in words, and Forsyth makes fascinating and amusing links based on their origins. Who’d have thought that there’s a link between sausages and Botox – all explained in his chapter, ‘Sausage Poison in Your Face; or that John Milton coined so many new words. He invented pandemonium, impassive, jubilant, loquacious and dozens of others.
Now that’s the mark of a great writer – one who creates his own language. I must give it a go when the thesaurus doesn’t seem to have just what I want.
Write and Prosper 