Invoking the Muses

Writer & Classics Major

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I Promise I’m Not a Murderer: The Story of a Researching Writer

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now with a sequel:

I Swear I’m Not Pregnant, I’m Just Naming Characters

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Don’t forget: I’m not Trying to Break Into This Building, I Just Need to Know the Layout of it

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And the ever appealling: I’m Not Planning on Killing Myself, I Just Need to Know How a Character Could Commit Suicide Whilst Making it Look Like a Murder

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I recommend

I’m Not a Terrorist, I Just Need to Know How a Criminal Mastermind Would Properly Construct a Bomb

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And my personal favourite

I Swear I’m Not Sick I Just Like Making Characters Suffer By Giving Them Deadly Diseases

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And then of course there is: I’m Not an Arsonist I Just Need to Know How to Blow Up a Government Building so That my Villain Can Capture the President.

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Obscure Color Words

albicant: whitish; becoming white

amaranthine: immortal; undying; deep purple-red colour

aubergine: eggplant; a dark purple colour

azure: light or sky blue; the heraldic colour blue

celadon: pale green; pale green glazed pottery

cerulean: sky-blue; dark blue; sea-green

chartreuse: yellow-green colour

cinnabar: red crystalline mercuric sulfide pigment; deep red or scarlet colour

citrine: dark greenish-yellow

eburnean: of or like ivory; ivory-coloured

erythraean: reddish colour

flavescent: yellowish or turning yellow

greige: of a grey-beige colour

haematic: blood coloured

heliotrope: purplish hue; purplish-flowered plant; ancient sundial; signalling mirror

hoary: pale silver-grey colour; grey with age

isabelline: greyish yellow

jacinthe: orange colour

kermes: brilliant red colour; a red dye derived from insects

lovat: grey-green; blue-green

madder: red dye made from brazil wood; a reddish or red-orange colour

mauve: light bluish purple

mazarine: rich blue or reddish-blue colour

russet: reddish brown

sable: black; dark; of a black colour in heraldry

saffron: orange-yellow

sarcoline: flesh-coloured

smaragdine: emerald green

tilleul: pale yellowish-green

titian: red-gold, reddish brown

vermilion: bright red

virid: green

viridian: chrome green

xanthic: yellow

zinnober: chrome green

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A lovely prompt from The Writer's Paradise!

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interrupting prompts to bring you...vocab!

Instead of whispered, consider:

murmured

mumbled

muttered

breathed

sighed

hissed

mouthed

uttered

intoned

susurrated

purred

said in an undertone

gasped

hinted

said low

said into someone’s ear

said softly

said under one’s breath

said in hushed tones

insinuated

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aye lil mama let me insinuate in ya ear

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a thousand apologies...

...for the lack of new prompts lately. The down side of being a classics student, a writer, and a blogger? Sometimes ancient Greek and Latin eat my life.

But here...have some prompts!

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in honor of nanowrimo this month!