One Million Words

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Newfangled (adjective)
newfangled [ noo-fang-guhld, -fang-, nyoo- ]

adjective
1. of a new kind or fashion: newfangled ideas.
2. fond of or given to novelty.

OTHER WORDS FROM NEWFANGLED
new·fan·gled·ness, noun

WORDS RELATED TO NEWFANGLED
contemporary, fashionable, fresh, modern, modernistic, new, novel, popular, unique, gimmicky, neoteric, new-fashioned

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Origin: 1425–75; late Middle English, equivalent to newefangel fond of or taken by what is new (newenew + -fangel,Old English *fangol inclined to take, equivalent to fang-, stem of fōn to take (cf. fang) + -ol adj. suffix) + -ed

EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB FOR NEWFANGLED
Ali is but the latest victim of a newfangled version of the “no platform” phenomenon.
AYAAN HIRSI ALI VS. THE CAMPUS THOUGHT POLICE|JAMES KIRCHICK|APRIL 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST

The uniform, and this newfangled authoritative role, gives her a sense of purpose.
‘CAMP X-RAY,’ A KRISTEN STEWART-STARRING GUANTANAMO BAY FILM, PREMIERES AT SUNDANCE|MARLOW STERN|JANUARY 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST

All I know is we won't be the ones coming up with the newfangled storytelling systems.
‘GAME OF THRONES’: WEISS AND BENIOFF ON GETTING HOOKED|ANDREW ROMANO|MAY 19, 2013|DAILY BEAST

At times, those years feel very far away; Branch once muses on a newfangled “cellular” phone in 1994.
THE UNGUARDED BILL CLINTON|TED WIDMER|OCTOBER 5, 2009|DAILY BEAST

Now YOU come up with a sentence (or fic? or graphic?) that best illustrates the word.

Here’s the rules:
1) 100 words or 1 graphic for each letter of the alphabet.
2) Get all 26 by January 15th and win a banner!

It’s that easy.
And perk – It’s the alphabet you know what’s coming if you want to get ahead of it. There is no need for your work to all connect. There is no need for them to be in order.

Like the Numbers challenge, if you are stuck or would like a random word to use, poke me and I will provide.

Now everyone give me a

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Come join me tonight from 8:30-10pm CST for a series of word sprints. Join for the whole session or however many rounds you can.

So gather up those prompts and I'll see you back at this post at 8:30.

Here's the schedule:
Round 1: 8:30-8:50pm
Round 2: 8:55-9:10pm
Round 3: 9:15-9:35pm
Round 4: 9:40-10pm

Happy writing!

I would love to say I channeled my angst over tonight's SPN finale into words, but... I spent the night scrolling through all the pretty Tumblr gifs. I'm not even sorry. :) I'm aim for words this weekend, and pass the torch to cmk418 - hope the Word Wars are productive!

Had a pretty productive session of word sprints today and wound up with 1672 words toward my NaNo novel. That keeps me 2 days ahead of par at this point. The end of the story seems to continue to move farther away as I keep writing, so hopefully I'll be able to finish as well as pass 50K by the end of the month.

Handing this off to my fellow NaNo warrior craterdweller. Wishing you plenty of words, abundant creativity, and a Muse that's good to you. Happy writing!