Arts & Literature Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

Citations in the Category Arts & Literature

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vomit draft n. And you can join them—even if your grammar grates and your spelling stinks. Your only goal is to finish what’s fondly called the “vomit draft.” Be assured that much of your novel will reek. But just as a slimy oyster shelters a shimmering pearl, so your story will harbor its own gem. [English Arts & Literature] [full cite] (Oct. 30, 2006)

vomit draft n. Vomit Draft, Junk Writing Tango, etc. There’s lots of names for what you have to do: Write FAST and don’t look back. [English Arts & Literature] [full cite] (Nov. 1, 2006)

vomit draft n. In one of countless references to himself, he describes how he wrote a 714-page “vomit draft” of the book in the last three months of last year. Even at half that length in its final form, the book is a trifle emetic. [English Arts & Literature Slang] [full cite] (Nov. 1, 2006)

vomit draft n. Later, reading her typed notes, I was embarrassed that I had subjected her to what I thought of as a “vomit draft,” from which I hoped to build a narrative one day. [English Arts & Literature Slang] [full cite] (Nov. 1, 2006)

wasm n. “Isms” have long since become “wasms,” no longer capable of explaining the rapidly changing ideas and intentions of 20th-century art. Stephen Little’s Isms: Understanding Art… is, therefore, deeply unfashionable. It also stretches a point since he begins with the Renaissance, and sustains several injuries by straining to find “isms” everwhere. Ghastly neologisms result, perspectivisim and allegoricism among them. [English Arts & Literature] [full cite] (Nov. 28, 2004)

windowshade n. A friend pulled her into a swing-dance move called a death drop. It’s not as suicidal as it sounds—it’s also commonly called a windowshade, “sort of a cross between a dip and a flip.” [English Arts & Literature] [full cite] (Aug. 8, 2006)

wrogging n. Just last night, as I was editing (key concept) my blog post for today, it occurred to me that there should be distinct words to describe “brain dump” blogging and high-quality writing on a blog (do you think “wrogging” will catch on?). [English Arts & Literature Media Technology New or Nonce] [full cite] (Apr. 2, 2006)

ziatype n. Continuing with “alternative” photography, Richard Sullivan and Carl Weese are the authors of a new definitive work, The New Platinum Print.…This covers the complete field of chemical and procedural controls of color and contrast for expressive photographic printing in platinum, palladium, and gold, introducing the new Ziatype process, while explaining in detail the traditional methods. [English Arts & Literature] [full cite] (May. 26, 2005)

ziatype n. I’m getting interested in trying some alternative processes like kallitype and ziatype. For this, I’ll need to convert 35 mm negs and positives to 8X10, 11X14 etc. paper negatives for the contact printing. [English Arts & Literature] [full cite] (May. 26, 2005)

ziatype n. Richard Sullivan announced a palladium and gold POP (and developing-out) process in 1996 called the Ziatype. Lithium chloropalladite is used for cool tones and the addition of sodium tungstate to give warm brown to sepia tones. [English Arts & Literature] [full cite] (May. 26, 2005)

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