Now that we’ve cleared up the meaning of purple prose, I can talk a little bit about what makes great prose so beautifully vivid. Please note that, for all I’m warning you to avoid the overly-ostentatious verbiage, I’m not recommending reducing your vocabulary to the grade-school level. No, your writing should always bring some challenge …
Tag: metaphor
Feb 13
Vivid vs. Violet Verbiage — The Violet
As S.K. noted in her last blog post…it’s been a crazy end to the old year and an even crazier start to the new year for us around here. Apologies for being MIA… At any rate, today I want to talk about something I’ve said I want to talk about many times in the past …
Mar 24
Paying Attention
Well. I don’t think I need to point out that my last post was for the New Year. *cough* Things never do slow down, do they? Sometimes, just when we hope we’re settling into a nice rhythm, life has a way of raising a maelstrom around us. I had all manner of good resolutions about …