How can you look at words differently to project their power?
Prepare for the Writing Challenge
During Words Matter Week, we host a writing challenge. Each day we will post a question on our blog and various social media outlets.
Respond to the question on your blog or social media page (be sure to include #WMW2022 in your response), and then link back to it in the comments of the corresponding article on the NAIWE blog. For each challenge you respond to, you will receive one entry (and a bonus entry for each response written on your NAIWE blog).
At the end of the week, we will have a drawing, and one person will win a fabulous prize, along with a mention and link in the next newsletter.
I’m dyslexia so I see all words differently and the same,
but it’s the imagination that opens the world of words.
Ad two letters sounds to a vowel in a word, and you are creating the power of a new language.
Anyone can do it, try it and smile at the results.
The human mind is set up to hear the sounds of word, but humans aren’t taught to hear them when they read.
Sounds are all around us, yet we filter them out.
In writing it is possible to unfiltered these background sounds and use words to guide the reader into hearing them.
Music notes are just symbols on a page that get translated into sounds by teaching.
Word are just symbols on a page we’re taught to create pictures of, yet the sounds in the pictures aren’t taught to be heard.
A prime example is how one is taught to see the dog barking but isn’t taught to hear the bark. With a few more words to guide the reader, the reader can not only see the dog barking they can hear the bark.
Work on it, you will make it happen.
It’s much in the same way a person is guided into being scared or not in horror novels. The author uses a combination of words to create feeling scared. sound is one of the ways.