She loves mystery, history, and how God reveals Himself every day. Joni Vance is an award-winning author of fiction, essay, and poetry. How do you choose the right words? Click To Tweet Welcome surprises that soothe and convey hope in the darkness. And in novels, every word needs to spark lightning.īut in most situations, I labor to craft my words to reflect the pleasant radiance of a lightning bug. I don’t know exactly what Twain was thinking when he wrote the quote above. People we love die, jobs are lost, health problems arise, and financial stress can hit us. Cause them to mourn that they have to say goodbye to the characters and world I’ve created. Render them powerless to put the book down until they read the last page. Autumn is more formal than fall, and the latter is more often used in daily conversations, especially in America. To hook the reader and hold them captive. Fall as a noun (chiefly, North America, obsolete elsewhere): The time of the year when the leaves typically fall from the trees autumn the season of the year between the autumnal equinox and the winter solstice. While fall and autumn are terms used interchangeably to indicate the season between summer and winter, there’s an apparent preference for fall in American English and autumn in British English. In my fiction, I strive to write lightning. Which do you think is more compelling? “He catapulted across the finish line and was chugging water before his competitor could spring off the starting block.” - OR - “The blond-haired guy ran faster than the other guy.” Lightning And we labor long and hard to select the word that epitomizes what we want to convey.
But if you ever see a meme like that, you’ll know my sense of humor is similar.įall. I don’t know if anyone has had the same idea. I didn’t want to pay for images and I’m not an artist, so I didn’t create the meme. Whether it is used for residential planting or commercial, it sure makes a sight. It occurs at different points throughout the year in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres of. The beauty of this tree during the fall is one of a kind. It is also referred to as fall, particularly in the United States.
During the fall, autumn blaze maple has an orange and crimson red color.
AUTUMN VS FALL FREE
I tried to find free images of people falling, so I could create a sarcastic meme titled “Fall Festival” with the caption, “I told you we should have called it Autumn Festival”. The magnificent Autumn Blaze Maple is a hybrid of the Silver Maple Tree and the Red Maple Tree. I refuse to call it a word that means some unfortunate person slammed to the ground and hurt themselves. I can’t bring myself to speak or write the word “fall” to describe the best season of the year.Īutumn is too brilliant and breathtaking. Twain’s example, “autumn” is the lightning and “fall” is… You get the idea.