Wednesday, May 1, 2019

IWSG: Language has Power

The first Wednesday of the month means it's time for an Insecure Writer's Support Group post!

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This month's question: What was an early experience where you learned that language had power?

My answer: WOW! What a terrific question! I learned early in life that language had power, because growing up I was a witness to and victim of the verbal abuse that took place in our house. Later on in my life, as a freshman in college, I watched a hypnotism show where the hypnotist told everyone still under his influence how to vote in the upcoming election. (Yikes - read the whole story here - and this was the inspiration for my novel, UNLOCKED.)












How about you? 

What was an early experience where you learned that language had power?




4 comments:

  1. A hypnotist really did that? Wow, that takes the cake and sounds like great fodder for a story.

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  2. When reading Black Beauty made me cry.

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  3. I would never submit to hypnotism. People are gullible enough in what they believe from news and social media sources. Twitter anyone? A concentrated power of suggestion misused is well within the realm of reality. And "Ethical Code of the Hypnotist"? Whose ethics? No thanks.

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  4. That experience with the hypnotism show sounds like it would make a great story which you made.

    Hypnotism isn't something to be taken lightly, especially when it's performed by those with questionable ethics.

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