How To Write, Part 1

Write.
The end.
Luna says that requires further explanation. Well, actually, she said something I can't really write down here... but alright, alright. I'll elucidate.
Isn't that a great word, elucidate? But really it's pointless if you don't know what it means... unless you put it into context somehow, of course. Like I did up there. "I'll elucidate." That means from that you get that it's something I will do, and considering the beginning of the paragraph, you can draw on the idea that it may mean in this instance I will explain.
So you know. If you put something into context properly, you can work the most complicated word in the world into a sentence, like... Brobdingnagian, and even if the person doesn't quite know what it means, they'll get it anyway. Like "his height was Brobdingnagian, towering over us all." Yes it means big. Really really big. Like Luna's ego. Luna's ego is Brobdingnagian. See, I didn't even have to insert something to illustrate how it was huge that time to get my point across. It can also mean monstrous. Which is also fitting.
And of course, out of context, the simplest words can be pretty monstrous to figure out. Like uh... oh. 'The red emotion.' Well, there's some context, you know it's an emotion, and red usually refers to a passion. Anger, or love... but it's still a stumbling block. Especially when you run into someone who takes things too literally, and you get all kinds of "hey emotions totally can't be a color" and everything. But of course if I write "The red emotion made him snarl" then you probably aren't going to assume it's love. Well. Luna and I growl at each other sometimes but we're weird like that.
Of course, there's jargon, too. Technical or specific terms that no one in their right mind would bring to a daily conversation unless they really just want to look smart or like they know what they're talking about. I met a lot of people like that. They really don't like it when you respond to "the idiosyncrasies of Flourish's work are amongst the first haute couture references of that time period, and clearly helped bring forwards the post-ren period of literature that many writers derived romantic and ideological works from today" with "You're stupid." Or worse, "Actually, Flourish was just copying one of his own former students. He really wasn't that original at all." Or. "I denounce your argument as irrelevant due to the well-known fact that chronologically speaking, Avesworth came before Flourish and denounced the juxtaposition of pre-Equestria eccletia via his subtle use of asymmetric metaphor."
I usually followed up the last with something poignant, like "suck it."
I was never very good at making nice with the fellow writers and scribes around Canterlot. Celestia reprimanded me a lot back in those days. I still think that being assigned to Luna was supposed to be a form of punishment, but well. Look how things turned out.
Uh... I'll talk about etymology next week or something. Shut up, Luna, words can be fun, too.

~Scrivener Blooms