#writerscoffeeclub Oct 16. How much does your working vocabulary change between works?
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#writerscoffeeclub Oct 16. How much does your working vocabulary change between works?
One of my editors once observed, "every SF or fantasy author redefines the English language from scratch in every novel". It's about more than just calling a rabbit a smeerp: we assign new meanings to existing vocabulary.
(The working language may be standardized within a series, but between stand-alones and series works I have to purge my autocorrect and spelling checker dictionaries!)
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