tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1695280310697378421.post8739659520448626103..comments2024-03-25T02:15:02.505-07:00Comments on Nancy's Blog: Words Neededadminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11442349453021015062noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1695280310697378421.post-77487607582916692062009-04-03T23:01:00.000-07:002009-04-03T23:01:00.000-07:00Definitely! It's rather like Greek having differen...Definitely! It's rather like Greek having different words for different types of love, and for us say the equivalent in English requires the use of two or three words.<BR/><BR/>(Ignore the 'click here now' for my icon. The host for my web site went out of business and I haven't yet uploaded a replacement to my Flickr account.)g d townshendehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02273940169271398206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1695280310697378421.post-92022981130543904082009-04-03T22:59:00.000-07:002009-04-03T22:59:00.000-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.g d townshendehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02273940169271398206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1695280310697378421.post-45900723980953284722009-04-02T08:32:00.000-07:002009-04-02T08:32:00.000-07:00a word to describe the complex of emotions -- hope...<I>a word to describe the complex of emotions -- hope, anxiety, fear of rejection -- that a writer feels while waiting to hear from an editor or agent about his/her manuscript</I><BR/><BR/>Try "fishy." <BR/><BR/>Hey, it worked for the missionaries. <BR/><BR/>The Choctaws had never seen a horse before, so they combined <I>issa</I> [deer] and <I>subah</I> [big] to get <I>subah</I> [kinda like a deer only bigger]. <BR/><BR/>Actually, <I>Shadenfreude</I> is two words: <I>Shaden</I> [shame] and <I>Freude</I> [joy], bt German lets you run words together. In English, we hyphenate or adjectivize: so, "shame-joy" or "shameful joy." <BR/>+ + +<BR/><I>the lovely sensation of a character suddenly springing to life</I><BR/><BR/>Erwachenschocken.TheOFloinnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14756711106266484327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1695280310697378421.post-34458245725700923062009-04-02T07:57:00.000-07:002009-04-02T07:57:00.000-07:00The complex of emotions -- hope, anxiety, fear of ...The complex of emotions -- hope, anxiety, fear of rejection -- that a writer feels while waiting to hear from an editor or agent about his/her manuscript:<BR/>"Neurosis"<BR/><BR/>A word to capture the lovely sensation of a character suddenly springing to life and pulling the plot in a direction you didn't expect but which is really exciting:<BR/>"Authorship"<BR/><BR/>A word to encapsulate the feeling of one's very first story sale -- "pride," "pleasure," or "triumph" don't even come close:<BR/>"Success"<BR/><BR/>(OK, these are lame puns. ;-))A.R.Yngvehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03972668378286177600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1695280310697378421.post-65954688701692616452009-04-01T21:41:00.000-07:002009-04-01T21:41:00.000-07:00I was going to mention rejectomancy too, before MR...I was going to mention <B>rejectomancy</B> too, before MRK beat me to it. Although that one, really, applies more to the attempt to predict, or to devine the meaning of, one or more rejections.<BR/><BR/>German is useful because it allows you to make new words out of combinations of old words. In that spirit, maybe the word is <B>manuscripticipation?</B><BR/><BR/>The feeling you describe about a character is a special case of the more general feeling one experiences with, say, a child who grows beyond expectations. In the general case I'd be inclined to use a term like <B>genesisawe</B> (hm, shorten to <B>genisawe</B>?) or <B>metamorphawe</B>. Then, in Deutsche fashion, we simply add the prefix: <B>charactogenesisawe</B> or <B>charactometamorphawe</B>.<BR/><BR/>Maybe <B>publishiphoria</B> for the last feeling you mentioned? (I experienced it a year ago, and had a very similar rush a few weeks ago when I got into Clarion. But the real word I've been using to describe both those experiences is <I>validation</I> (which isn't a feeling) Maybe <B>validationiphoria</B>?)Ken Schneyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00530209947553176188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1695280310697378421.post-48610112098734022232009-04-01T15:54:00.000-07:002009-04-01T15:54:00.000-07:00Rejectomancy covers many of the sensations that co...Rejectomancy covers many of the sensations that come with waiting for back about a manuscript.Mary Robinette Kowalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11186499502632679751noreply@blogger.com