Exercise restraint when an author infects you with verbal bombast!
October 20, 2011 12:33 pm Book AdviceReading certain authors has an immediate effect on the way you approach language. It is funny to note how reading something by Nabokov, or any similarly gifted author with a great deal of flair and an outrageous vocabulary, often compels you to mimic their style with gleeful abandon.
Suddenly your work emails are awash with grandiloquent phraseology and delicious and tangential metaphorical ambulations, and your sesquipedalian text messaging habits result in frightfully extortionate bills.
There’s no harm in indulging yourself when a great author unleashes a verbal torrent in your imagination, but remember that there is a time and a place for such brazen rodomontade!