This is where verbal intelligence kicks visuo-spatial's ass.

I saw these words over on ysabetwordsmith's journal in this entry, and I couldn't resist trying to figure it out for myself.

I suspect these are completely made up words, but maybe they're not. I know there are many, many old words that aren't in our dictionaries anymore because they fell out of use decades ago.

Does anyone know the definitions to the following words:


1. droringe

2. euculiar

3. eulexithymia

4. frobgnosticon

5. hypolexithymia

6. myriadoxy

7. quordic


Oh, and BTW, they're not online. Any of them. Except for where they're found in ysabetwordsmith's LJ. So, no good Googling. I tried. I Googled like a champ, but alas, the Google-fu failed me.

( My own guesses to the words' meanings and component parts. I bet you could totally get away with using these in scrabble, too, if you're good at bluffing. )

The Query Project

The Query Project, in which published authors show the actual query letters that got them published, along with their comments about query letters in general.

I would definitely recommend any of my fellow unpublished authors on the f-list to go check it out. It never hurts to learn from people's successes.

I definitely am bookmarking the hell out of this, and intend to study it in great detail. Because any and all help I can get with this sort of thing is a blessing.

Especially since I'm getting very close to the end of the Tower!Guy revisions/rewrite and come hell or high water, I'm submitting this thing to someone. After which, I expect I'll be able to wallpaper my apartment with rejection letters, but hey. At least it'll be because they book was bad, and not the query letter. That's something.