Kcecelia
Subscriber since: June 2008
Location:
San Francisco,
CA
About Me
I am a writer living in San Francisco, California. I love words and dictionaries, and I own many wonderful hard copy dictionaries. In the last few years I have expanded my love of dictionaries to the online versions. I encountered the Visual Thesaurus accidentally when Googling a better word for "lengthy." (I chose "protracted.") I am entranced by the way the Visual Thesaurus works. It will be a further aid in my quest to find just the right word to communicate each idea I wish to share.
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"The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven."
- John Milton
Favorite Topics:
Blogs:
Ben Zimmer on How Technology is Shaping Language
October 8, 2013
On Slate, Lexicon Valley Launches a New Language Blog
September 10, 2013
Books:
"Nine Nasty Words": How and Why We Curse
August 13, 2021
Highly Entertaining and Informative
August 3, 2021
Copywriting:
Nine ways to finish the writing you start
July 28, 2022
The Lingo of Film Noir
November 19, 2021
Creativity:
Nine ways to finish the writing you start
July 28, 2022
Of Time, Happiness, Creativity and Writing Accomplishments....
December 23, 2021
Fiction writing:
Of Time, Happiness, Creativity and Writing Accomplishments....
December 23, 2021
Why You Should Blog BEFORE Writing Your Book
December 23, 2021
Fun:
Very Spatial and Capable Lethal Aid
February 10, 2022
Grammar:
Seven Sentences You Should Stop Writing
November 23, 2020
How to Make Your Sentences Shorter
June 25, 2020
How to write:
Nine ways to finish the writing you start
July 28, 2022
How to Survive Until You're Famous or Successful
March 24, 2022
Language:
Metaphors We Live By (Updated)
March 3, 2022
Brand Names of the Year for 2021
December 16, 2021
Language arts:
The Enduring Impact of English Teachers on Students
April 28, 2015
Libraries:
Librarians Suggest Good Books for Kids of All Ages
January 15, 2013
Love Your Librarian
September 26, 2011
Linguistics:
Scale Your Onboarding
June 2, 2022
Tricky, Special, Fruitful, Space-Flavored Fiddle-Faddle
April 14, 2022
Linguists:
Joseph Stalin and Problems of Linguistics
April 7, 2022
Of Dialects, Vernaculars, and Code-Switching
February 3, 2022
Online:
Strategic Flexibility and Other Bendy Balderdash
October 7, 2021
A Recipe for Time Travel
October 6, 2020
Puzzle:
To Bee or Not to Bee?
March 18, 2021
The Visual Thesaurus Crossword Puzzle: March Edition!
March 21, 2008
Reading:
How to Read More Books
November 19, 2018
Pride and Prejudice and Natural Language Processing
April 2, 2018
Self-publishing:
How to Survive Until You're Famous or Successful
March 24, 2022
How to Protect the Important From the Urgent
March 25, 2021
Storytelling:
Should You Self-Publish?
October 26, 2020
Why You Should Consider Back-And-Forth Writing
September 24, 2020
Teachers:
The Enduring Impact of English Teachers on Students
April 28, 2015
How Can English Teachers Nurture Young Writers?
March 6, 2015
Teaching:
Teach Your Children Well
February 1, 2019
The Enduring Impact of English Teachers on Students
April 28, 2015
Web tools:
Twitter Me This: New Technology in the Language Arts Classroom
November 15, 2011
Tracking Dialects on Twitter: What's Coo and What's Koo?
November 4, 2011
Word Origins:
Shoot! How Gun Idioms Color Our Speech
July 21, 2022
Scale Your Onboarding
June 2, 2022
WordMasters:
WordMasters: Grade 3 Gold Division Jan-Feb '11
January 31, 2011
WordMasters: Grade 3 Blue Division Jan-Feb '11
January 31, 2011
Words:
Shoot! How Gun Idioms Color Our Speech
July 21, 2022
"Nine Nasty Words": How and Why We Curse
August 13, 2021
Writer's block:
Nine ways to finish the writing you start
July 28, 2022
How to Survive the Feast or Famine of Freelance Writing
April 28, 2022
Writers:
Nine ways to finish the writing you start
July 28, 2022
How to Survive the Feast or Famine of Freelance Writing
April 28, 2022
Writing:
Nine ways to finish the writing you start
July 28, 2022
How to Survive the Feast or Famine of Freelance Writing
April 28, 2022
Young readers:
How to Encourage Summer Reading
July 16, 2014
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