wRITERS! Doughnut say the word you meat to say. Say other words that are not that word. Your word-writing will thank you.
Instead of WALK consider
- frazzle
- bounty
- kelp
- brigadoon
- spelunky
- biscuits w/ sausage gravy
- quizzical
- Gary, Indiana
Instead of SAID consider
- evaporated
- spleened
- funjaculated
- rhubarbed
- miskatoniced
Any time you are about to use a word, STOP! You are making a mistake. Go to this site. Put in the word you think you want to use. It will tell you that you are wrong and you should use other words. Pick one of the other words.
Remember, the number one rule in writing is show, not tell! If you use the word you mean, you are telling, not showing, and your writing will be bad.
This is exactly as helpful as the posts that unironically tell you that all good writers are required to go through three passes of a thesaurus on every verb. I love it so much.