B – My Building Blocks of writing started piling up when Mom showed me how to use a thesaurus. She wanted to share one of the greatest resources for word enthusiasts ever created. I would pick a page at random, study words, learn new ones, and read for 
hours. The sheer number of words dazzled me. And, even now, I close my eyes, rifle the pages and, when I stop, I’m always amazed at the beautiful and miraculous variety of our language under my fingertips. Some people do this with the Bible, finding endless affirmation and hope. To me the thesaurus is the bible of words, filled with inspiration and creativity.
What building block of writing sits on your bookshelf?
Nancy H. Doyle 
I rediscovered my thesaurus when an Internet outage knocked out the online thesaurus and I have to say I fell in love all over again. Gotta love a book that connects words in so many different ways– it’s like a map of language.
My other building block of writing though would have to be Stephen King’s ‘On Writing’. His straightforward advice left no doubt in my mind that I had to give writing a try.
I never looked back. 🙂
I’m with you, the thesaurus is a fantastic tool, I use it endlessly, mostly on the Internet with a dictionary there to help me too.
Building blocks, that’s a good way of looking at it! Networking has been a building block for me. So many people out there that need help but that can also be helpful.
Awesome post!
Konstanz Silverbow
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