Meaghan’s Blog

Today, it rains. Icy snow keeps falling off the roof onto the sun porch roof (better known as the playroom), which can be quite loud but not very alarming. We still haven't gotten the piece we need for the pellet stove, but it isn't nearly so chilly inside as it was a few days ago.

For the past week or so, I haven't written a thing in my story, and the cause is likely to be that I was unsure of what to do next, if I wanted to carry out a turn in the plot, or if I just wanted to wait a bit for what I was planning. I still haven't written anything today; I've been reading Jane Austen novels in the past few days. I finished Sense and Sensibility this morning, which I had only one chapter left, and I'm a short way through Persuasion now. I hope to read Emma soon, but from what I had read of it my mind would wander if I didn't concentrate on it enough. With some of Sense and Sensibility that happened, but not often, and for a good part of Persuasion I didn't take most of it in. The next time I read it, I'll probably take in more information than the first.

I also haven't been doing anything with those imaginary creatures, or with paintings, and even with reading the dictionary and taking the trouble to write down any word that may be of use to me and its meaning, which is often tiresome and needs concentration, patience, and motivation. I do like to learn new words, but it's so slow to go through it page-by-page. I'll get to it eventually. New words I have recently learned? (or would 'learnt' be correct? Is it even a word?)

Verbose, wordy, minded, mindful, wiseacre, dole, dote, office, witted, recrudescence, prevaricate, clandestine, irresolute, disquiet, seldom (got to love that one!), condign, revel, foible, laudable, discourse, dissuade, dishearten, disconsolate, disconnected, disenchant, deter, obstinate, unbeknown, asperity, disregard, disservice, disquiet, concur, adulate, abtruse, incessant, steadfast . . . there are many more scribbled in my notebooks, some  . . .  most of which I never wrote the meaning, so unless I've looked it up several times or the meaning is obvious, I don't know what some of those mean but they're of some use to me. I didn't write what they mean because that would take a long, long time. However, some of my favorites are: condign - well-deserved; verbose - using many or too many words, wordy means the same; wiseacre - insolent and something else; clandestine - done in secrecy for deception and one other thing; disservice - harm; seldom - rarely or only on occasion. I think abtruse means 'hard to understand'. Oh, and let's not forget 'redundant'. That's a good word.