Inspiration: Oddly Enough, "Booger" Is Not On the List

Posted by Scalzi about 1 year ago | Permalink | Comments (2)

The editors of the American Heritage Dictionary have 100 words they believe every high school graduate should know: “If you are able to use these words correctly, you are likely to have a superior command of the language.” Or, alternately, that you’ve memorized these particular 100 words in an effort to sound all edjumacated and whatnot.

I think you should all go one better. I think you should write a Ficlet using as many of these 100 words as you sensibly can. Because then you would be an evanescent ziggurat of awesome.

Two of the words in the last sentence were on that list. Guess which ones they were.

Comments

  1. uselessness' Buddy Iconuselessness

    Posted about 1 year ago

    I wrote one! Dang if that ain’t a garish read. ;-)

  2. GraemeW's Buddy IconGraemeW

    Posted about 1 year ago

    And here’s my offering: http://ficlets.com/stories/3945

    I’m not sure this qualifies as writing—more like a puzzle in words.

    —Graeme