How Writers Can Expand Their Vocabulary

by Dirk Hooper

When I was a youngling, I decided I wanted to be a writer. As a writer, I looked at words like tools in a toolbox. And I wanted the biggest toolbox possible. I set out to learn as many new words as I could.

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