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Longshot: Chapter 6 reposted; a word on vocabulary

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Due to the wonderful ongoing efforts of my editor Yellow Peril, Chapter 6 of Longshot has been reposted to SOL today. The few grammar errors in the chapter have either been corrected directly, or passages rewritten to avoid the original error (hopefully without introducing any fresh mistakes).

In our correspondence YP pointed out that the word "anastomose" - a rejoining of things that have diverged or branched outwards - would be a more accurate term to describe the geography of Longshot's falls at the edge of the cascade. An author's primary job is to bring scenes and characters to life for the reader, but I believe it is also their responsibility to very occasionally use rarer words might be a better fit for a passage, expanding the reader's vocabulary in the bargin. I'm no Lovecraft - you won't find "squamous" or "cacodaemoniacal" used with regularity - but you will sometimes come across words that are unusual. In all such cases, their meaning should be easily derived from the context in which they are used.

 

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