When you're journalling, especially if you're using just one or two words, it’s important to find the word that accurately describes what you're trying to express. Common words such as "happy", "handsome", "cute", can be over-used: and once you've been scrapbooking longer than a year or so you start to be desperate for more! Here's a technique to explore a few different words to use.
For example: there are many words for degrees of heat in addition to the word ‘hot’. A
cline is a graduated list of words to give shades of meaning, for example:
- Whitehot
- Red-hot
- Steaming
- Boiling
- Simmering
- Hot
- Warm
- Tepid
- Luke-warm
- Blood warm
- Body temperature
- Cool
- Chilly
- Cold
- Freezing
- Frozen.
Once you have your list of words, you can pick one that's perhaps more meaningful than the obvious!
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