Have you ever struggled to find just the right word, but you don’t seem to have anything suitable in your….mind? No. Suitable in your … notebook … collection … ensemble? No. Anthology? That’s not it either! Something more like skill set … skillset … two accepted spellings … ugh! Have you ever struggled to find just the right word, but you don’t seem to have anything suitable on the tip-of-your-tongue … on your lips … in your back pocket? Front pocket? Frontal lobe? I digress. Okay. I get it. I’ve been there. I’ve been there as a mother going through unspeakable loss and attempting to journal. I’ve been there as a writer in my professional life as a patent lawyer. I’ve been there in my creative linguist art. That’s where these books came from … this collection … this series … these Experimental Word Plays. Attempts at finding just the right words … the write words … the words to write to think to feel to experience. Whether you’re observing the world around you, taking note of the world for personal reflection, or creating an entirely new world as a writer, word lists like the one shared in 1000+ Still Useful Words are tools that can connect you, to your language, to your world, to your life. Filled with opportunities for you to play on your own, enjoy these thousand or so phrases … letter melds … linguistic conglomerations … blurts … you know - WORDS.