Repetition; The brilliance and loveliness of brilliant writing and lovely words.

As writers we like words. We like the way they roll off our tongue and how lovely they sound in our ears and hang brilliantly in the air. As human beings we have favourite things...

I have favourite words; lovely and brilliant are two of them, and I use them a lot! 

When I speak, when I write and in my head before I do either of the latter, but what happens when we use those words over and over?

As a child whenever I got in trouble I wrote lines to teach me a lesson. 

Do me a favour, read what the stormtrooper is writing. Out loud about 25 times.

"I will find the droids I'm looking for." 

By the end of that did you even know what you were saying? 

This is call 'DE-SENSITIZATION' 

It happens when we see, hear, read, say or feel the same thing over and over again.
When we repeat words, they lose their meaning. 

   

If you chew bread too many times it gets soggy, this is the same with words. After 'chewing' on a word for to long it gets soggy and mushy and downright gross.

I love brilliantly formed writing with lovely imagery and brilliant uses of metaphors and lovely descriptions. I find it most useful when writers use lovely adjectives and brilliant adverbs to describe their brilliant ideas and lovely structures. 

If you read that line and noticed the first, second and third use of my favourite words good job!
Did you also realize though that after you read it the second time you read over them they started to get soggy?

There is a solution though! Go get a dictionary. Find the word you want to use. Find synonyms-other words and phrases that have the same type of meaning or the same exact meaning and use them! 

HOMEWORK!

Do something for me, for literature.

Find your favourite words.

Write them in a notebook, on your mirror, in the comments below.

Then search for other words and use them!

In the long run you will have lovely writing with some brilliant metaphors, but you will also have some amiable sentences that in my opinion may deserve their own splendid page.