In honor of St. Patrick's Day, I'm going to do a post on the color green. As a fantasy writer, I tend to use other words to describe the color green because the word "green" seems so ordinary.
Here are some of my substitutes for green:
* Emerald (this one is my favorite!) "Emerald eyes..."
* Olive
* Lime
* Jade
And then their are words I put in front of green to provoke a certain image:
* Sea green
* Forest green
* Jungle Green
* Camouflage green
* Moss green
* Shamrock green
Then there's the blue green word that I love:
*Teal
And for those word collectors out there, here's one that I'd never heard of until today:
* Celadon (Which is a pale tint of spring green)
What color words do you use for your writing? Any other green ones that I missed?
12 comments:
Wonderful post. I like color words, too.
These greens come to mind: sage, aquamarine, mint, avocado, pea green, apple, chartreuse, vertigris. And here in South Texas, verde.
Hello! I found you blog by way of Laurel's Leaves.
When I write, green is my favorite color to describe through smell. For example, green smells like:
* fresh-cut grass
* a squeezed lime
* cilantro
* a rain shower in April
* tomato plants growing in a garden
I look forward to reading more from you!
I love green. Great color words. There all so evocative
Great idea for a post! Wow, Carol has some great ideas. Nicole too.
There's always the good old fashioned 80s favorite: hunter green.
I like sage and olive.
Great post! Funny, I've never actually thought about it. Upon reflection I tend to use crimson a lot in my writing. In my current novel, I have a character called Silver.
Happy St Patrick's Day!
PS - I've also found you by way of Laurel!
I never use chartreuse because I have the darnedest time convincing my brain it's not a shade of red. I don't know why.
I'm amazed no one has said malachite yet. One of my favorites.
Anyhow ... go green!
I love this post, Aubrie. I'm a huge fan of using interesting color words. "Blue" and "green" and "red" just sound so bland. "Azure" and "celadon" and "ruby" are so much more interesting!
I think of chartreuse as purple for some reason. Sounds purple.
I'm not too visual so I do boring standards. I had one story where my character thought of crayola colors when she was nervous. That was fun.
Love the shades of green! My post is in green too and I posted a picture of my trip to Ireland.
I have on seafoam green nail polish. My coat is a kelly green and I'm seeing the ultimate green team - The Celtics - at Boston Garden tonight.
Happy St. Patrick's Day!
I love emerald as well. :)
I also love Nicole's idea of describing green through smell. So many wonderful ways to describe green!
Happy St. Patrick's Day!
xx,
E.J.
Celadon would be a good name for a dragon...
:D
awww yayyy awards!!
congrats to everyone!
great blog! :D
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