A reader of one of my books said to me
one day, "Your book has got so many bombastic words. I have to use a
dictionary to find the meanings. There were some words which I couldn't find in
the dictionary. Why so bombastic?"
I was quite bemused when I heard him saying that. I was delighted that he'd been using a dictionary to check out the meaning of those words. I had on purpose, thrown in some of the words in my writings as I knew that rather a few of my readers in my home country would not know the meanings of the words as they had been taught English with a strictly grammar-based syllabus but without realizing that their vocabulary was actually rather limited. My vocabulary had been very poor, too. I had started to improve it when I began to indulge more in writing.
The so-called bombastic words I had used in my writings would be quite common to one who had been taught English with a wider-based syllabus with more emphasis on vocabulary enrichment. If one were to Google-search those words, all the meanings would be there.
I had written the books in my simple style. There wasn't any rodomontade or exaggeration in my writings as I was no Walter Mitty. I hadn't indulged in fantastic daydreams of personal triumphs in my writings as I had not achieved anything in life. I had only used creative licence to turn ordinary incidents of my simple life into something which I thought might be interesting to the readers. Most of all, I had written for my personal enjoyment.
I was quite bemused when I heard him saying that. I was delighted that he'd been using a dictionary to check out the meaning of those words. I had on purpose, thrown in some of the words in my writings as I knew that rather a few of my readers in my home country would not know the meanings of the words as they had been taught English with a strictly grammar-based syllabus but without realizing that their vocabulary was actually rather limited. My vocabulary had been very poor, too. I had started to improve it when I began to indulge more in writing.
The so-called bombastic words I had used in my writings would be quite common to one who had been taught English with a wider-based syllabus with more emphasis on vocabulary enrichment. If one were to Google-search those words, all the meanings would be there.
I had written the books in my simple style. There wasn't any rodomontade or exaggeration in my writings as I was no Walter Mitty. I hadn't indulged in fantastic daydreams of personal triumphs in my writings as I had not achieved anything in life. I had only used creative licence to turn ordinary incidents of my simple life into something which I thought might be interesting to the readers. Most of all, I had written for my personal enjoyment.
ltbs
You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn’t care a damn about anybody else at all.
Doris Lessing
You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn’t care a damn about anybody else at all.
Doris Lessing
