DISCURSIVE
DIS- (prefix) ~ expressing negation.
CURSIVE (adjective) ~ written with characters joined.
So, DIS-CURSIVE should be writing that ISN’T joined? Wouldn’t that make it printing?
Nope.
It is an adjective.
~ digressing from subject to subject
~ (of a style of speech or writing) fluent and expansive rather than formulaic and abbreviated
A flash fiction story is concentrated, whereas an epic 150,000 word fantasy novel is DISCURSIVE (whether it’s printed or in cursive handwriting).
So, why am I talking about DISCURSIVE? Because I like the sound of the word but was a bit disappointed that it didn’t have anything to do with handwriting.
Just when I think I can figure out unfamiliar words by looking at the prefixes, suffixes, and such, there are all these words that don’t follow the rules. I’m not sure if it’s worth learning the rules in the first place with so many exceptions. How is a dyslexic girl to know which words follow the rules and which don’t?
But back to DISCURSIVE. I can’t decide if I like DISCURSIVE better being expansive or being the opposite of cursive.
Maybe I’ll add another entry in the Mary-Davis-Dictionary where another definition of DISCURSIVE is the opposite of cursive. Then a synonym of “printing” can be DISCURSIVE.
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THE WIDOW'S PLIGHT ~ A sweet historical romance that will tug at your heart. This is book 1 in the Quilting Circle series. Releases in ebook July 1 and in paperback mid-June.When Lily Lexington Bremmer arrives in Kamola with her young son, she’s reluctant to join the social center of her new community, the quilting circle, but the friendly ladies pull her in. She begins piecing a sunshine and shadows quilt because it mirrors her life. She has a secret that lurks in the shadows and hopes it doesn’t come out into the light. Dark places in her past are best forgotten, but her new life is full of sunshine. Will her secrets cast shadows on her bright future?
Widower Edric Hammond and his father are doing their best to raise his two young daughters. He meets Lily and her son when they arrive in town and helps her find a job and a place to live. Lily resists Edric’s charms at first but finds herself falling in love with this kind, gentle man and his two darling daughters. Lily has stolen his heart with her first warm smile, but he’s cautious about bringing another woman into his girls’ lives due to the harshness of their own mother.
Can Edric forgive Lily her past to take hold of a promising chance at love?
“Holly & Ivy,”my #HistoricalRomance novella in A BOUQUET OF BRIDES COLLECTION, takes place in 1890, in Washington State. It’s about a young woman who accompanies her impetuous younger sister on her trip across the country to be a Christmas mail-order bride and is helped by a gallant stranger. #BouquetOfBrides
A doctor or an Amish wife? She can choose to be only one…Kathleen Yoder comes home after fourteen years in the Englisher world. Practicing medicine means sacrifice—no Amish man will want a doctor for a wife. Widowed Noah Lambright offers a cottage as her new clinic, seeing how much Kathleen’s skills can help their community. But as their friendship deepens, could love and family become more than a forbidden dream?
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MARY DAVIS is a bestselling, award-winning novelist of over two dozen titles in both historical and contemporary themes. She has five titles releasing in 2018; "Holly & Ivy" in A Bouquet of Brides Collection in January, Courting Her Amish Heart in March, The Widow’s Plight in July, Courting Her Secret Heart September, & “Zola’s Cross-Country Adventure” in MISSAdventure Brides Collection in December. She is a member of ACFW and active in critique groups.
Mary lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband of over thirty-three years and two cats. She has three adult children and one incredibly adorable grandchild. Find her online at:
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