Paul Whybrow
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- Jun 20, 2015
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After having a mammoth final (hah!) editing session of my three completed novels, I set to thinking about collective nouns.
My Cornish detective is quite a spiritual chap, a bit of an animist, for he's investigating murders in the wild landscape and interacting with wildlife, trees and ancient monuments. I'm something of a naturalist myself, so I've had my protagonist observe clatters of jackdaws, a murder of crows and a charm of goldfinches.
I wondered what collective nouns could be applied to writing.
For unpublished authors: a hopefulness—or maybe a hopelessness....or maybe a determination.
For literary agents: a snub—a fussiness—an indifference.
For already established authors: a smugness—a routine—a predictableness.
For publishers: a pomposity—a complaisance—a fleecing.
Any more ideas?
My Cornish detective is quite a spiritual chap, a bit of an animist, for he's investigating murders in the wild landscape and interacting with wildlife, trees and ancient monuments. I'm something of a naturalist myself, so I've had my protagonist observe clatters of jackdaws, a murder of crows and a charm of goldfinches.
I wondered what collective nouns could be applied to writing.
For unpublished authors: a hopefulness—or maybe a hopelessness....or maybe a determination.
For literary agents: a snub—a fussiness—an indifference.
For already established authors: a smugness—a routine—a predictableness.
For publishers: a pomposity—a complaisance—a fleecing.
Any more ideas?
