Challenge yourself by devoting a page in your journal or your writer's notebook to a study of personal and favorite anagrams. An anagram is where a writer takes all the letters of a word, a proper name, a favorite expression, or something even longer...and scrambles all the letters up to make a new word, or name, or expressions. It doesn't work with every word or name or expression, but when it does...watch out! It's fun.
A page devoted in a journal or notebook encourages a writer to think in anagrams and return to the page to record them later. It's excellent for left-brains that like to dissect language...and it forces writers to think about words differently.
This type of wordplay, even when away from larger writing assignments, encourages playing with the language and taking risks with words, which helps improves a writer's Word Choice.
If you do not have time to play around with this, but still would like to see the anagrams of some writing buzz words, you can go to Wordsmith.org. I tried this out and selected the anagrams that I liked best for each word.
Writing - Wring It
Character - Catch Rare
Inspiration - Aspirin It On
Words - Sword
Creativity - Active I Try
Editor - Redo It
Setting - Testing
Revision - Version I
Description - Predictions
Dialogue - Audio Gel
Heroine - Hire One
Freelance - Clean Free
What anagrams can you come up with?
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4 comments:
It's funny how some of the anagrams you used here are related to the original word...ex. Editor: Redo it. That by far is the funniest one. Awesome post.
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Thank you for visiting my blog. My favorite is "Creativity"-Active I Try.
Ana, this is great! wonderful idea. I can't really think of any thing off the top of my head. But, looking around on this page I see the words
enabled - able den
author - rat thou
LOL are those considered anagrams?
Great post!
This sounds like much fun. I'm going to try it. I also like the editor - redo it a lot.
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