The letter K was causing me problems in my mild A-Z planning, but this is where I've ended up.
Collins English Dictionary offers these definitions:
1. a skilful, ingenious, or resourceful way of doing something
2. a particular talent or aptitude, esp an intuitive oneKnack covers positive and negative, which is always useful in a word. My knack for baking cake is matched by my knack for rolling bad dice.
I've also found giving NPCs a knack or two an easy way to bring them to life. A physical description is all very well, but I run out of hair colours and voices long before I run out of interesting knacks. Meeting up with that strawberry blonde bar wench is fine, but give her a knack for being always in the right place to overhear what she shouldn't and a mean line in home-brewing and you have a story in the making.
Knacks. I'm a fan.
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Officially a fan, too.
ReplyDeleteThough now married to an honest-to-God saint and all-around helluva great guy, I think I have historically had a knack for scraping up the nearest emotionally unavailable passive-aggressive man within a 500-mile radius. And for brewing a mean pot of coffee.
That sounds extremely familiar. My record was appalling before meeting up with the bona fide good egg I married. Lame dogs didn't begin to describe it. Yes to the coffee as well.
DeleteWe paid our dues -- and now we are being rewarded. What was that about only so many good rolls to the dice ... ?
DeleteI reckon I spent most of my early romantic life rolling 1s, that's for sure.
DeleteKnack: Also a band who had a one hit wonder with "My Sharona".
ReplyDeleteAnd a 1960's film :D
DeleteI have the knack for choosing good blogs to read.
ReplyDeleteI seem to have been very fortunate in that respect as well. Found a ton of good things via A-Z.
DeleteI never thought to call them knacks, but that's what I'll be calling them from now on.
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