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Oct 4, 2021
This week’s themeWords related to writing This week’s words chosisme pilcrow paremiography dithyramb obelus Missed a word? Check the archives chronological alphabetical plaintext or search the site Previous week’s theme Hand to mouth 
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with Anu Garg“Working” has a different meaning for writers. If you are a writer, writing doesn’t necessarily mean typing away on a keyboard or scribbling on a piece of paper. Writing happens when you are walking or taking a shower or pulling weeds in the backyard. Simply staring out a window also works. Once your writing is done, you just need to dump it on a sheet of paper or into a computer. This week we’ll see a few words related to writing. How would you describe what you do in a way that clears misconceptions or puts it in a different light? Email us at words@wordsmith.org. chosisme
PRONUNCIATION:
(sho-ZEEZ-muh)
MEANING:
noun: A literary style which focuses on description of objects, not on interpretation, plot, characterization, etc.
ETYMOLOGY:
From French, from chose (thing), from Latin causa (case, thing). The idea
is associated with the writer and filmmaker Alain Robbe-Grillet. Earliest
documented use: 1960s.
USAGE:
“‘How are things?’ someone asks the author at a party. That sets him off.
How are things? You mean, in what way do things exist? How should I know?
What, even, is a thing? I’d better write a book about it. And so he does:
a book of short meditations on everyday objects, a contemporary exercise
in happy chosisme.” Steven Poole; How Are Things?; The Guardian (London, UK); Nov 5, 2005. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the
survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating
wealth. -Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th US president (4 Oct 1822-1893)
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