{"id":97,"date":"2013-12-22T16:03:38","date_gmt":"2013-12-22T16:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carmelvivier.com\/?p=97"},"modified":"2014-01-24T14:21:50","modified_gmt":"2014-01-24T14:21:50","slug":"words-are-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carmelvivier.com\/?p=97","title":{"rendered":"Words Are Magic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;<em>Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic &#8211; capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it<\/em>.&#8221; Albus Dumbledore, <em>Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part II<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As every writer knows, words are magic.\u00a0 Writers have the ability and obligation to invoke all types of emotions in our readers; words which cause our readers to laugh out loud or bring a tear to their eye, make them angry or have the power to bring back precious memories.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Take the words \u2018victim\u2019 and \u2018survivor\u2019.\u00a0 These words are basically the same &#8211; you have been a victim of something and you have survived the ordeal.\u00a0 Journalists use these types of words to create emotion in their stories &#8211; \u2018the victims of the attack\u2019 or \u2018the survivors of the attack\u2019.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Michael Hyatt has a video on his <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/michaelhyatt.com\/videos\/the-power-of-words-2\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">website<\/span><\/a><\/span> showing the power of words.\u00a0 Writing the same thing, but using different words, can make a huge difference, not only in your writing, but in the response of the reader.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The slogan I use for my writing is<em> \u201c<\/em><em>where words really matter<\/em><em>\u201d.\u00a0 <\/em>Make sure that as a writer you select those magical words that invoke in your readers the response you are looking for &#8211; make your words really matter to the reader.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic &#8211; capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.&#8221; Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part II As every writer knows, words are magic.\u00a0 Writers have the ability and obligation to invoke all types of emotions in our readers; words which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carmelvivier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carmelvivier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carmelvivier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carmelvivier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carmelvivier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carmelvivier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104,"href":"https:\/\/carmelvivier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carmelvivier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carmelvivier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carmelvivier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}