Vocabulary Shortage

[Tatsuo]

Is this one of writer's block?

 

[ElijahRyne]

Is this one of writer's block?

Perhaps, sometimes it is better to write out the idea first and come back to refine it later.

 

[Tatsuo]

Perhaps, sometimes it is better to write out the idea first and come back to refine it later.

How big is your vocabulary If I may ask.

 

[ElijahRyne]

How big is your vocabulary If I may ask.

When writing it is at a 6-7th grade level when reading it is at 11-12th grade level.

 

[Tatsuo]

When writing it is at a 6-7th grade level when reading it is at 11-12th grade level.

I see, seems its more easy to recongnize a word than to remember it during writing
I am the same I guess.
Thank you for your time.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

I have a particularly voluminous, though frequently erroneous, vocabulary myself.

 

[RecursiveDescent]

I can recite and correctly pronounce antidisestablishmentarianism, hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia and pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis on the spot.
But I spent minutes and then gave up trying to remember the word retaliate when I needed it

 

[ConansWitchBaby]

Red a dictonary for beter worts.

 

[wresch]

I wish I could give you the source, but Stephen King once published a list of alternatives. Like eight different ways to say - good, or happy, or said. The guy really does try to help other writers. Like I said, I can't give you the source, but it is out there somewhere. I think about it as I write.

 

[BearlyAlive]

Words are, like, hard, man. Most of the time I don't even what they. And other times my cognitive reserves get reactivated by remnants of resounding rhetorics... It's like I either go full Shakespear or just shake pears...

 

[istryj]

Yes and no — a large vocabulary is a sign that you’ve read a lot. This gives you the foundation to understand what a 'plot' looks like. Maybe, by analogy, you’ll be able to write your own. Or maybe not.
just my opinion