• How to write fiction

    The imminent danger of metaphor p1

    Without our knowledge, simply the COVID 19 has increased the number of words we use further away from Shakespeare or Cervantes. From the name of the virus — Coronavirus and its a lot less common symptoms like— apnea, fatigue, pulmonary obstruction, cutaneous eruption... Plus derivates such as: willingly quarantine, mortality, asymptomatic, K19 grade, sanitary measures, thrombosis, gen, risk group. That's 13 new words! 13 new words for an average individual. Tough daily life doesn't require as many as a poetic ode to imply we're going to the loo, any number. So we underestimate language by rating a raggaeton song's listeners to be unschooled just cause the song uses 30 words…