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  "textContent": "_Saturday, August 23, 2025_\n\nGood morning, The Wonder Fell Way.\n\nA consistent word prompt to start the day.\n\n¡Olé! O/\n\nSitting in the sunrise, pixels on a page, the stage is set, the page is met to have a good day.\n\nSo... here we go.\n\nOn with our show...\n\n...\n\nHope all's well with you today.\n\nBusiness type thoughts this morning.\n\nThere's two craft modes to being a writer of any sort: The Act of Writing and The Act of Editing.\n\nIf you look at The Archaic Slabs at the end of any handwritten entry here, you'll notice I don't edit much.\n\nTwo reasons:\n\n  * One: This is a journal and no-edits are part of the charm.\n  * Two: I've been writing for a long time. The edits come preloaded while I make each sentence.\n\n\n\nExperience of craft is in each clause.\n\n> \"Because you found your writing voice, Wynn.\"\n> -Reader That's Read A Lot Their Whole Life and Also Writes\n\nFinding one's voice as a writer is just a matter of trusting one's voice.\n\nYou're not someone else; you're you.\n\nWhy would you want to sound like someone else?\n\nIt brings insincerity to your work to try and sound like another.\n\nThe best way to establish your writing voice is not just to write, but to write comfortably.\n\nA well-used adverb.\n\nIf I were trying to write like some other author or poet, I'd almost certainly leave out any adverbs.\n\nStephen King deplores adverbs; he despises semi-colons, too.\n\nIt's music, it's rhythm, it's instrumentation, it's audience.\n\nA horror story full of semi-colons and adverbs drags along and preaches.\n\nAdverbs are condescending in the hands of amateurs.\n\nBut they have their place.\n\nPoe would horrifically use them.\n\nBut he was preachy, and at times condescending.\n\nMr. King is neither; they wouldn't fit his voice.\n\nI'm also certain, as he's so well written and read, Stephen wouldn't begrudge Virginia Woolfe's use of her semi-colons. They fit her way, her rhythm.\n\nWhen you're teaching something a gentle adverb helps.\n\nExclamation points, outside of quotation marks, are an author laughing at their own joke.\n\nThe voices of some authors laugh alongside their readers. O/\n\nSome do not...\n\nSome people are funny. O/\n\nSome are not...\n\nSome people are humble.\n\nWe all should be. O/\n\n_Grammar is a canvas; not a prison._\n\nAnother writing about writing entry... best to stick to what you love.\n\nMornings, daydreams, a hound dog, and thoughts of you, and words, words, words for reveries.\n\nTake care, dot your eyes, cross your teas with sugar please, and make wonderful this wonderful day.\n\n#### +he Ghos+\n\nWynn\n\nBrought to you by the emoji of the day: 🍫 __chocolate_bar__\n\nArchaic Slab\n\nPromptly Spoke: __Create an image of a faerie dressed as a nerd writing at sunrise in the style of a magical gothic dark fantasy painting.__\n\nImage courtesy of Grok and +he Ghos+, August 2025Image courtesy of Ms. Copilot (DALL-E 3) and +he Ghos+, August 2025Image courtesy of Ms. Copilot (GPT-4o) and +he Ghos+, August 2025",
  "title": "A Well-Used Adverb",
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