Years ago I joined ACFW –American Christian Fiction Writers
where I met Nancy Williams. In one of her posts she commented on using stronger
verbs—those ending in ED. I emailed her. She emailed back. A few weeks later Nancy sent a
list of verbs she’d compiled—over 700 or so.
Today I found a part of that list. No, I’m not posting them
all, but here’s a few to add to your next writing assignment.
Approximated, ambled, acceded, acquiesced, adlibbed; blanched,
blinked, blathered; , crackled, coveted, cloistered, clipped, cornered; ,
delineated, desecrated, despised, escaped,
evaded, elicited, excited, flattered, flattened, flustered, fragmented, glimmered,
grimaced, groused; hacked, hefted, hiked; and I skipped to Z Zipped, zippered,
zoomed.
When I reviewed the longer list I treasured all those years
ago, I see these are common words, words we use daily so why the list?
Have you
ever started an article or a new chapter and that “one word” won’t come to you? It’s
happened to me—more than once.
Still Lionhearted, Kat
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