Promote your story but JUST with an uncommon word you used in it

Leyelle 2024-04-11 03:33:56 UTC #1

I'll start with "Acedia." acedia means "a state of spiritual or emotional sloth" and can be compared to apathy.

Hey, teachers are always saying to read to improve your vocabulary right?

Mansi_Gu 2024-04-11 22:01:37 UTC #2

I don't know if this counts, but I used the word "cafuné", which means:

"scratching someone's head with your fingertips, popularly considered a gesture of care and affection. Typically, cafuné is an affection made between people with some level of fraternal intimacy, usually between family members, couples or close friends."

It's a word with such deep meaning and I couldn't find an english word that had the same impact as "cafuné" in my mother language (portuguese) hehe~ I also recently discovered that there's a band called Cafuné - which sang the music "Tek it" - and they named it because they liked the word

I used the word in this fuzzy chapter :

Leyelle 2024-04-11 22:24:22 UTC #3

it's probably similar to the word 'caress,' but not quite the same, since that usually means to stroke someone or something out of care or affection. you could caress someones head, face etc.

MangoBango 2024-04-11 23:43:08 UTC #4

it's Australia so Crikey

kyupol 2024-04-12 00:49:05 UTC #5

SumireHime 2024-04-12 12:26:37 UTC #6

Okayu. It's a Japanese dish that's basically a rice gruel or porridge. I grew up with it, and ate it when I was feeling ill. The dish factors heavily in one chapter of my story.

Leyelle 2024-04-13 19:20:49 UTC #7

"Dithering" (also used in Tangerine Acedia) means 'indecisive.'

Pirateboy 2024-04-13 19:25:13 UTC #8

"Salvation" not an unusual word I would definitely not something you see often in novels and comics. The word basically means - the saving of human beings from sin and its consequences. I don't know how to add my novel here so I will just write the title "Star of Salvation"

Leyelle 2024-05-08 14:23:02 UTC #9

I suppose "nebulous" is a fairly uncommon word. it means something that is unclear.

Cherryfox 2024-05-08 15:56:55 UTC #10

I sort of made up these words for my story (I don't think they are actual words). "Valprya" to describe the moment a Dhampir awakens their vampiric nature. "Vamprya" refers to an ancient ritual that transforms Dhampirs into Moroi.

Leyelle 2024-05-26 23:34:28 UTC #11

bile:
this isn't the weirdest word in the world, but I do wonder how many stories other than mine find occasion to use it.
Bile is a bitter liquid that aids in digestion.
It's supposed to stay inside your body. In my chapter, it's not doing that.

I feel like Adam and Eve must have - trying to ignore the sound of our parents downstairs in the living room asking where we are - if we’ve come home from school yet-

I almost shut the bathroom door, leaving my foot in the space between the door and its frame - whispering harshly for all my panic-

“Wash your face.”

Riley obeys. Plunging his hands into the ice cold water vomiting from the sink, he wipes the last delicate dribbles of golden bile from his lower lip, and I shove the door open again with a violence that makes it slam against the wall behind it - leaving a dent like a pitted scar-

“Now hurry up and get to your room and your homework before they come up here.”

This he does too, without a word, and I pretend not to notice the smudging in his eyeliner - hoping mom and dad won’t notice either.

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Leyelle 2024-06-05 02:20:25 UTC #12

I love plants, so I mentioned Mozambique Ebony when describing the female lead of my new novel "A Dozen Morning Glories" in it's crossover chapter with "Damsel in the Red Dress." Ebony is a very expensive wood noted for its pure black color, that is almost identical to the complexion of Essence, my new FL.

This is her story:

This is the crossover chapter where she's described by my other FL, Alicia:

Leyelle 2024-06-19 15:54:21 UTC #13

"Trounce": to thrash or punish severely. especially : to defeat decisively

flutewarbler 2024-06-19 17:58:17 UTC #14

I mix a lot of different cultural elements to create my own version of an elven world. Mostly, I borrow from Native American and Irish cultures (the two just connect in my mind for some reason). There are a lot of Irish words in my story, and the one you'd probably see most is: Síocháin

Síocháin means "peace," and the elves of Lyfay use it as a greeting in a similar way to "salam" or "shalom."

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Leyelle 2024-06-19 18:37:06 UTC #15

that's really rare i'm pretty sure, or uncommon in most fiction anyway

Leyelle 2024-07-17 15:08:52 UTC #16

The word "migraine" is used quite often in "A Dozen Morning Glories." While it's not super duper rare, it doesn't have a use in most contexts. unfortunately for my FL, she suffers from them

Leyelle 2024-08-10 13:31:14 UTC #17

inefficacious

lotus_fire 2024-08-10 13:48:17 UTC #18

"Glyph"
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maestrolobo43 2024-08-10 15:19:05 UTC #19

the uncommon word is "KAUYUMARI" is a word to reffer the deer spirit in Mexican huichol natives....
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SwordSong 2024-08-10 15:35:40 UTC #20

"From time immemorial", meaning from a far distant past. It's basically a shorter way of saying "for as long as anyone could remember".

In the context of the chapter, it's describing what should be a terrible news, but because it's been so ingrained to the main character's daily life that he no longer considers it a big deal, and puts it on the same level of urgency as his other, more mundane assignments.