A Thesaurus + pandemic legends + Christmas movies

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a thesaurus

I’m on the hook to do a lot of writing quickly and so have been experimenting with productivity hacks… I’m trying out Scrivener, which is a word processing system specifically for writing long works, like novels or dissertations. It’s a lot like Word, but with more flexibility. It, like Word, or Google Docs, has a built-in thesaurus.

This is important because you don’t realize how much you like certain words (I am weirdly partial to “foray”) until you’re striving to write some clean, interesting prose and you find your characters constantly going on forays.

For many years I used the thesaurus provided by Word. It is quick, convenient and gets the job done. It always felt a little too transactional, though. It was a bit soulless and while the words that were offered up to me were serviceable, I couldn’t shake the feeling that there were more and better words out there.

Rummaging around our bookshelves, I came across this guy.

It was a blissful reunion. I’m a youn…