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I went to school with a very clever chap. He was always revising, and always getting good grades. When it came to his English exam he did all the usual study or grammar and reading of the set texts. He also spent several minutes each day reading the dictionary. At the time I thought this extreme, but he got a much better grade at English than I did.
Creative writing involves words. The more words we know, the more creative we can be. I am not advocating using words that no one knows, or are so obscure the reader hasn’t any idea what you are saying. Having a large vocabulary and one that is also growing is an essential tool for a writer.
One way of improving your vocabulary is to sign up for the wonderful Dictionary.com’s ‘word of the day’. You can subscribe to the RSS feed and you’ll get a new word each day. I have been using this for a while now. Each day I get a word and if I don’t know it, or I am unsure of its meaning, I take a moment or two to learn it. It may be too late to improve my English grade but I live in hope that my writing will become more colourful.
