Word of the week: Bucolic

Bucolic (adjective)

“As AWC team member Dean pointed out, this words sounds unpleasant – and almost sounds like bubonic (as in the plague) – but is actually an adjective describing a lovely scene, usually in a rustic or rural settings. So you might say ‘The country house had a bucolic outlook with lambs frolicking about and peonies swaying in the breeze.”

To hear Valerie and Allison chat more about this and more on the world of writing, blogging and publishing, check out episode 111 of our podcast, So you want to be a writer.

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