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50 WORDS TO USE INSTEAD OF “SAID”

Do you ever find yourself over-using the word “said” in your writing? Try using these words/phrases instead:

stated

commented

declared

spoke

responded

voiced

noted

uttered

iterated

explained

remarked

acknowledged

mentioned

announced

shouted

expressed

articulated

exclaimed

proclaimed

whispered

babbled

observed

deadpanned

joked

hinted

informed

coaxed

offered

cried

affirmed

vocalized

laughed

ordered

suggested

admitted

verbalized

indicated

confirmed

apologized

muttered

proposed

chatted

lied

rambled

talked

pointed out

blurted out

chimed in

brought up

wondered aloud

(NOTE: Keep in mind that all of these words have slightly different meanings and are associated with different emotions/scenarios.)

If your plot feels flat, STUDY it! Your story might be lacking...

Stakes - What would happen if the protagonist failed? Would it really be such a bad thing if it happened?

Thematic relevance - Do the events of the story speak to a greater emotional or moral message? Is the conflict resolved in a way that befits the theme?

Urgency - How much time does the protagonist have to complete their goal? Are there multiple factors complicating the situation?

Drive - What motivates the protagonist? Are they an active player in the story, or are they repeatedly getting pushed around by external forces? Could you swap them out for a different character with no impact on the plot? On the flip side, do the other characters have sensible motivations of their own?

Yield - Is there foreshadowing? Do the protagonist's choices have unforeseen consequences down the road? Do they use knowledge or clues from the beginning, to help them in the end? Do they learn things about the other characters that weren't immediately obvious?

Anne Carson, Plainwater: Essays and Poetry

—  Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay

[text ID: When I desire you a part of me is gone.]

― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

Vincent Van Gogh // John Keats

Albert Camus

this search for the essence of who I am

Jeffrey Eugenides, from “The Virgin Suicides”

Virginia Woolf, from “The Years”

Anaïs Nin, from Henry and June: From “A Journal of Love,” The Unexpurgated Diary (1931-1932) of Anaïs Nin

Text ID: And in the circumference of my solitude I know I have found a moment of absolute love. His greatness fills the wounds and closes them, silences the desires. He is asleep. How I love him! I feel like a river that has overflowed.

I’d like to walk around in your mind someday.

Vashti Bunyan (via surqrised)

I don’t think I actually loved you

But I do know I wanted what you could’ve gave me

You could’ve gave me the things I’ve only seen in movies

“you’re so pretty,” okay write poetry about me then.

Be nice to yourself. It is hard to be happy when someone is being mean to you all the time.

Christine Arylo (via thoughtkick)

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— Virginia Woolf

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"I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together."

-Lisa Kleypas

I’m obsessed. From The Tyrant Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson

Friedrich Nietzsche

Nikki Giovanni, The Collected Poetry, 1968-1998

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Dele Olanubi

Mary Oliver

Fernando Pessoa // Michel Foucault

Ik I don’t have any followers but whoever sees this do y’all have any tips for journaling

I mustn’t love you to much

Or else I’ll never stop