I like spreading verbiage like icing a cake, thick, creamy, and luscious. If I can write words that sound sweet together or that create an effect or that make a rhyme or pun or joke, I’ll try it. The title of the post, Not Idle At All, is an example.
I hear the two words, “at” and “all,” when I say them together, “at all,” as sounding a lot like the single word, “idle,” the word they follow. I hear it as almost a rhyme, close enough for me to like it anyway. I attempted to give the article a title with an almost rhyming play on words I put together based on their sound. Say the three words in a row several times: “idle at all,” “idle at all,” “idle at all.” Do you hear it?
Listen for words that sound alike. Repeat them aloud when you hear or read them. Let their sound fill your mouth and roll off your tongue, filling the room with a sonorous word tune.
