WORDS COUNT?

When editing my books or screenplays I’m

 sure to I find word or phrase that doesn’t fully

express what I wanted to put across to the reader.

Some character might find themselves

climbing  ‘shaky’  steps upward when I know there

must be a better word to describe it.

I rattle my brain and nothing comes to mind.

Leaving me to pull out my  trusty Collins  English Dictionary & Thesaurus. It’s the latter that comes to my rescue.

Writer’s comment:  I go back to ‘shaky’ steps and replace it with ‘rickety’ steps.  Rickety  gives me the  scary physical feeling how I wanted it to feel.

more to go.

Last week I mentioned how our old German shepherd died.

And left it at that. What I should have added, she had pups.

We kept one of them who has grown into one hell

of a dog. (see photo below)

We call her Rebelle. Only because she was a bit of a handful at

first. As dogs should be. And turned out to be one heck of a

wonderful , trusted companion to us both.

WRITER’S COMMENT: She is fun to be with. Playful. Yet knowing

what’s expected of her. Barking full out, hair raising on the back of her

neck when a stranger shows up at the door.