A Word to Explode Your Writing
Nope. We’re not gonna blow anything up.
Riddle: There is no bomb … no B-52 bomber … no
bug bomb …not even a photo bomb. Yet, the Internet still bursts with it. Think
hornets’ nest …
I often turn the sound off when reviewing
news and social media on the Internet. And, even silently, five to ten minutes of visual noise at a time, is about all I can take. Why?
Incessant, insistent and obnoxious activity bombinates
our senses all day, every day, like a stirred-up beehive, even without sound. It
reverberates with inane and often, just plain ignorant, silent noise …
With each new controversial topic posted every
millisecond (and way too many podcasts and videos), the Internet bombinates
without relief, 24/7. It’s up to us to limit our time on it, for the sake of
our sanity, and our writing.
And are we ever away from it? How often do you
sit in silence? If the answer is never, give it a thought. If you “can’t hear
yourself think” for the noise of it—always reaching for your phone? … checking
your fave social media?—it’s time for a break from the grid.
Bombination assailing your ears and eyes unceasingly, rivals the dreaded tinnitus that bombards our auditory senses, for the unlucky who
suffer from it. Just like tinnitus, there is no cure, and very little respite.
Sigh.
Word Challenge: BOMBINATE. Take an off-the-grid challenge, as you fit bombinate
into your week of buzzy writings.
Learning knows no prejudices or boundaries, and
it isn’t fattening! Expanding your mind is a no-cost simple joy. Do you feel
that way too? What’s your inspiration? Share your creative genius and Wordplay Wednesday
comments below.
Write first for yourself … only then can you write for others. (L.Rochelle)
LinDee Rochelle is a writer and editor by
trade, and an author by way of Rock & Roll. She has published two books (of
three) in her Blast from Your Past
series, available on Amazon (eBook and print): Book 1 – Rock & Roll
Radio DJs: The First Five Years 1954-1959; and Book 2 – Rock & Roll
Radio DJs: The Swinging Sixties. Coming soon, … The Psychedelic Seventies!
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