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If something is keeping you from writing -- put it aside.
Why are you using the thesaurus? Is it a way to turn avoid composition?
Try this: When you're convinced the word isn't quite right, just type a near-enough word, then type XXX then continue with the composition.
For the last twenty minutes of the day, search on XXX with your Thesaurus in hand.
(Oh, and when you bring out your thesaurus, bring out your dictionary too: make sure you know what the words mean. Really sure. Once I was reading some unpublished fantasy, and came to a bit where our hero had just met a young lady, and ... put a medallion on her cervix. I knew instantly what had happened. The author had wanted a fancy-sounding word for 'neck.' And 'cervix' does, indeed, mean 'neck.' As in 'cervical vertebrae.' But, generally speaking, one doesn't get near a beautiful young lady's cervix until you and she are very good friends.)
Why are you using the thesaurus? Is it a way to turn avoid composition?
Try this: When you're convinced the word isn't quite right, just type a near-enough word, then type XXX then continue with the composition.
For the last twenty minutes of the day, search on XXX with your Thesaurus in hand.
(Oh, and when you bring out your thesaurus, bring out your dictionary too: make sure you know what the words mean. Really sure. Once I was reading some unpublished fantasy, and came to a bit where our hero had just met a young lady, and ... put a medallion on her cervix. I knew instantly what had happened. The author had wanted a fancy-sounding word for 'neck.' And 'cervix' does, indeed, mean 'neck.' As in 'cervical vertebrae.' But, generally speaking, one doesn't get near a beautiful young lady's cervix until you and she are very good friends.)