Funny writing definitions

A funny writing exercise for you to browse through and begin the week with a smile. Evil Editor had folks come up with amusing, publishing-related terms that don’t really exist. Quite a few good ones that I think should be made official dictionary entries, like…

Insuffishink – The inevitable condition of a printer that’s been told to print your entire novel, such that when you return to the room, all but four pages are too light, and must be reprinted

Xenoblarney – made-up alien words

and, Hooker – opening line of a query soliciting an agent

Also, for a few more days, you can enter this blog competition where you make up words and definitions to go along with them.

My entries:

• Yahweeee- The sound God makes while going down a slide.
• Celebrithitis- Becoming ill over how much attention and importance we give two-dimensional celebrities these days.
• Celebrectomy- The solution to the previous term, which involves throwing your television out the window and hopefully braining a celebrity as they are passing along the sidewalk below.
• Diet Joke- humor without a punchline

The prize? A $150 set of Writer’s Market guides, including:

Writer’s Market Deluxe Edition 2008, which comes with a ONE-YEAR SUBSCRIPTION to WritersMarket.com
Guide to Literary Agents 2008
Children’s Writer’s & Illustrator’s Market 2008
Poet’s Market 2008
Novel & Short Story Writer’s Market 2008

Have at it.

I see that smile.