One would think with so many words in the English language it would be nearly impossible to reuse the same word over and over again. How wrong we are. If I've learned anything in the past weeks and months its that I and I'm sure many other author's find a word that works for us and use it till it's dead. For example, glance. Seems to innocent until you actually read over your work and find six uses of the word within the space of a few paragraphs. It's been a challenge to find other words, terms, descriptions that can assist in creating the scene without slaughtering one word. So I'm offering a challenge today: Come up with three words that you use frequently and then for each one find at least five others you can use. IE: Blue - cerulean, saphire, aquatic, baby-blue, cornsilk Good luck and have fun! I think a little menace is fine to have in a story. For one thing, it's good for the circulation.~ Raymond Carver