Many authors (even I at a point) believe that using long complicated words will make your book 'more advanced.' A lot of books that take place in the past (I feel like I do not need to put that there, cause you've seen the cover and title) use these complicated words that I feel like were randomly placed there because the author used the word "haste" too many times, so instead they replace it with the word "expeditiousness."
No one, mostly at least, will understand. Also, do I need to teach y'all what a synonym is? It's a word that has a similar meaning, but it doesn't mean you can just paste a word and feel it's gonna be fine. Maybe the word you selected to replace your over-used word is only used when it is describing an inanimate object, maybe you only use it when and after the word "the."
These are things that you need to pay attention to if you are going to use the thesaurus. If not, don't use it. Repeating the same words is fine, using extra fancy-looking words isn't going to suddenly make you into Shakespeare. (Will anyone agree with me that his plays, are just utterly boring?)
The purpose of writing is to get a point across, not to turn "Hello" into two 8-sentence paragraphs.
(Remember: The Thesaurus is a tool to help you write, not something you should be basing your entire writing on!)
YOU ARE READING
romanticizing the past
Non-Fictionjust because you see it, doesn't mean it's real these apply to all genres of writing, however I feel like the historical writing community just violates these rules the most. this book is a bit of a joke, but mostly not but is.
