My kindred-spirit-blogger-teacher-writer friend Lainie Levin had a fun post this week on a favorite exercise with young student writers: playing with suffixes added to your name, then coming up with a definition of the essence of you. Lainie calls this “nounifying yourself.” Here’s her suggested suffix list:
-itude
-ness
-ility
-age
-dom
-ity
-ship
-sion
-ance/ence
-al
-ation
-iety
-ment
Naturally I had to accept her invitation to compose (read more about her process and see fun student examples in her lively post, Word Play – thank you for this, Lainie!)
Frandom
The quality of maintaining a quiet inner realm despite the world’s clamor, where one’s thoughts are free to be one’s own; typically achieved through experiences with reading, writing, nature, and awe.
A drawing of me by my granddaughter last year: Franna in her Frandom?
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Cute! Right there in your thronement under the realm of loveship! Beautiful. You mean the world to your granddaughter!
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Thanks, Kim – makes me think about writing little stories for her, set in Frandom….
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Adding your noun to my vocabulary–I will seek always to cultivate Frandom.
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Lol. I hope it serves you well.
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Word games are fun, for sure! But my name doesn’t work too well for this one.
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Thank you – and sometimes a little tinkering with the name can help, Sheilessence comes to mind…
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