{"id":34876,"date":"2017-12-04T06:30:38","date_gmt":"2017-12-03T17:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=34876"},"modified":"2017-11-27T22:00:28","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T09:00:28","slug":"artefacts-of-the-writing-life-2-dictionary-thesaurus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2017\/12\/04\/artefacts-of-the-writing-life-2-dictionary-thesaurus\/","title":{"rendered":"Artefacts Of The Writing Life #2: Dictionary &#038; Thesaurus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?attachment_id=34877\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-34877\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-34877\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2017-11-09-15.19.31-150x112.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2017-11-09-15.19.31-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2017-11-09-15.19.31-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2017-11-09-15.19.31-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2017-11-09-15.19.31-1024x767.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2017-11-09-15.19.31.jpg 1373w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Currently I&#8217;m taking a closer look at some of the artefacts* of the writing life, kicking off with <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2017\/11\/20\/artefacts-of-the-writing-life-1-pen-and-paper\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#1: Pen &amp; Paper<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This week it&#8217;s my trusty dictionary and thesaurus, without which, dear readers, I would be lost.<\/p>\n<p>Both are absolutely essential to checking whether that word means what you <em>really<\/em> think it does and to finding alternatives to a word you&#8217;ve already used a ker-zillion times previously.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?attachment_id=34878\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-34878\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-34878 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2017-11-09-15.18.58-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2017-11-09-15.18.58-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2017-11-09-15.18.58-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2017-11-09-15.18.58-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2017-11-09-15.18.58-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As well as my desktop versions (shown in the pics.), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Merriam Webster Online<\/a> is another &#8220;go-to&#8221; source of word information. (Psst, they also have great word-y quizzes, should the visitor feel the need to test their metal. \ud83d\ude09 )<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<pre>*Artefact: \"a functional or decorative human-made object.\"<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Currently I&#8217;m taking a closer look at some of the artefacts* of the writing life, kicking off with #1: Pen &amp; Paper. This week it&#8217;s my trusty dictionary and thesaurus, without which, dear readers, I would be lost. Both are absolutely essential to checking whether that word means what you really think it does and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34876"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34913,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34876\/revisions\/34913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}