The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for. - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, 1953

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This week’s prompt is going to be very different.

It is a brand-new year, and as a writer, you are to make up a brand-new word. You will then define it as it would be defined in the Merriam Webster dictionary.

And then, (please don’t give me heartburn for starting a sentence with a conjunction) you will use this word in a 365 word story. The dictionary type definition will not be counted as words in the story.

Example: I like using the word ‘snork’. I thought I made it up, but there it was; in the dictionary. For me, it defines the sound made in a sucking laugh, almost, but not quite like a loud, short form snore.

Snork noun

ˈsnȯ(ə)rk, ˈsnȯ(ə)k

plural -s

dialectal, England

: a snoring sound : snort