Words

I wish I was a wordsmith. You know, one of those people who always knows the right words. A person who naturally uses purchase instead of buy; speak instead of talk; completed/finished; grasped/held; profusely/a lot; irreverent/disrespectful; and hundreds more. I can usually find a better word for what I want to say when I'm writing something out. But I don't speak like that. I admire people who do. They're so interesting to listen to. It kind of goes along with being a good speaker. I'm not that person either. 

When I worked for a local cable company, the president of the company use to get ambushed by the media, often/frequently. Usually about the cost of cable TV. He was an excellent speaker/orator. Right off the cuff he could answer any question they threw at him in an intelligent and thoughtful way. It was amazing/remarkable. Maybe that's just having the gift of gab? I think that's part of it too.

Would a story be less interesting if it were written the way someone like me, might talk? Maybe I'm just lazy. Maybe, because I don't like people, I don't like to talk to them so I don't bother? Hmmm. Maybe a good/decent wordsmith doesn't talk like that either! Maybe/perhaps it's just the Editor that has those skills? They say that if you read a lot, your vocabulary just becomes bigger and better words will come to you automatically. That didn't work for me. I love to read. But still, I don't speak like that. Is it what you read that matters? Maybe you just have to care more about words and language? I think that's it. I don't like people who use too many extra words to convey what they're trying to get across. Just cut to the chase already.  

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