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Do you consider the use of a Thesaurus while writing to be pretentious or "cheating" in some way? I know people think this generally but I dont understand why. There are many great, underused words that will suit your meaning better than neutral common words. Of course if minimalism is your style you may simply prefer more common language and that's fine too. But the way I see it, literature is in its finished form a piece of art assembled from many sources, remembered, imagined, alluded to, and why should a conscious choice of words be shameful in this process? Why is it assumed an author using esoteric language must have something to prove about themself?
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>>8469096
Thesaurus is useful in filling your gaps of certain sphere of knowledge. Architecture, for instance. But saturation of your text with witty words has no value.
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>>8469127
>this
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It's usually associated with filler
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>>8469096
No, why on earth would it be considered cheating? Yesterday I had to look up the words "nadir" and "delimited." Dictionaries exist for a reason.
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>>8469096
Yes: also the written word. All works of fiction should be conceived wholly inside the confines of the mind, like a prisoner in a Vietnam prison camp designing his future home or Joseph Smith. Only in this way can your work pure.
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