It hasn’t been often in my life that I’ve felt elegant. I don’t have a job that requires any level of it, and I never really have. I used to dress nicely when I worked in an office, particularly when I was the receptionist. I’ve enjoyed going out to parties, dances, and bars, (in my younger years) but those days are gone.
But I do appreciate elegance. And so I write about it. The characters in my novels are far more elegant than I can ever dream to be. It’s just one of the many things I compensate for using my imagination. They say those who can’t do, teach. I suppose it could be said that I teach the population of my stories what I can do in theory but not practice in real life. Or maybe they teach me.
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January 19, 2016 at 12:01 am
Thanks for letting me choose a word, Linda! It makes me feel elegant to be a part of your “team” 🙂
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January 19, 2016 at 7:38 am
You are! Thanks again for helping out. 😀
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January 19, 2016 at 2:16 pm
😊
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January 18, 2016 at 4:16 pm
http://rhymeswithbug.com/2016/01/18/elegance
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January 18, 2016 at 3:53 pm
Nice and elegant. http://johnwhowell.com/2016/01/18/top-ten-thing-not-to-say-in-the-doctors-office-jusjojan
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January 19, 2016 at 11:18 am
Thanks, John. 🙂
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January 18, 2016 at 2:00 pm
Elegance is such a beautiful word. So gentle. Elegance is not only physical either. Have a wonderful day.. c
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January 19, 2016 at 11:19 am
You too, Cecilia. 🙂
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January 18, 2016 at 1:22 pm
I’m with you.
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January 19, 2016 at 11:19 am
😀
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January 18, 2016 at 11:56 am
Elegance is nice to experience but if I touch anything the elegance drains out of it.. LOL
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January 19, 2016 at 11:20 am
Haha! Yeah, me too, pretty much. 😛
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January 18, 2016 at 8:43 am
Very nice. I’ve had occasions to be elegant, but in my heart, still a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl. ☺
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January 19, 2016 at 11:22 am
It’s the best way to be! Or at least the most comfortable. 😀
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January 18, 2016 at 8:19 am
I like to think writing and our characters teach us. You are very elegant with words.
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January 19, 2016 at 11:28 am
Thank you, Tasha. 🙂
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January 18, 2016 at 8:18 am
https://cornerofconfessions.wordpress.com/2016/01/18/elegance-just-jot-it-jan-18th/
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January 18, 2016 at 4:36 am
Elegance is personal… Maybe it is not the delicate pearls, the coiffed hair and tiny hands. Maybe it is in the way the wind flows through your hair, the way your eyes sparkle when you laugh or just your gait after a good ice-cream expedition.
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January 19, 2016 at 11:48 am
Perhaps elegance is more in the eye of the beholder. 🙂
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January 18, 2016 at 3:49 am
As my post suggests, elegance and me don’t work in the same sentence.
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January 19, 2016 at 11:50 am
Ah, but so many of your sentences are elegant. 🙂
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January 19, 2016 at 9:03 pm
“I blush,” she said 😉
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January 18, 2016 at 3:09 am
I started my journey into elegance late. Pretty late. I am less than 5 years old, and I may not even be doing it right. But I do feel really good doing it. Sharing your elegance knowledge with your characters help people like me know what to do-because we read! And you are right. It probably teaches you too.
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January 19, 2016 at 11:52 am
It does, because I have to study what elegance looks like before I can write it. 🙂 It’s win-win!
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January 18, 2016 at 2:55 am
I would have loved to have been elegant, but there is no hope for me now 🙂
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January 18, 2016 at 3:11 am
It’s never too late, is it? 🙂
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January 18, 2016 at 3:21 am
Oh, I think it is for me, I am just too awkward to be elegant. 🙂
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January 18, 2016 at 3:55 am
Where I am, my hairstyle is considered awkward and un-elegant. I pull it off anyway. :-). Awkward is always epicly beautiful.
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January 18, 2016 at 8:45 am
Well there is that way of looking at it Deb, and I like your style 😉
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January 18, 2016 at 8:53 am
Thank you.:-)
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January 19, 2016 at 11:51 am
I’m with Deb on this one. 🙂
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January 18, 2016 at 2:55 am
Hi Linda I don’t think I have ever been elegant, at 4ft 10½inches it doesn’t go with the territory! But elegance is more than looks and I think we can all be elegant in our own way. 🙂
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January 19, 2016 at 11:55 am
I think so too, after reading all the comments. 🙂
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January 19, 2016 at 12:26 pm
🙂
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January 18, 2016 at 2:37 am
Linda, I have not felt elegant in many years either….ahhhh those were the days lol
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January 19, 2016 at 12:01 pm
Yep. 🙂
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January 18, 2016 at 2:31 am
http://finallyawriter.com/2016/01/18/just-jot-it-january-18th-organizing-for-the-writer/
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