Word of the Day: callithumping

callithumping (adj)

Loud, noisy, boisterous.

"It was only when the thing exploded later, into a fire-eating callithumping fat lady freak tent cinema-circus, that I began to understand the thing as a story. When they figured out who Derek Brownlow was, and what it meant."
--Emily Arsenault, The Broken Teaglass

I often think of "things" as stories. I sometimes feel like someone in a novel or film. I mentally collect situations that I can write about. I get interested in certain people because they seem like characters to me -- meaning they aren't boring. I guess I'm a...writer.