By: Silvia Cremona
This week’s word of the week scripturient. Scipturient is a rare noun that means having a strong, passionate or compulsive urge to write. It comes from the late Latin word scripturire, meaning “to desire to write.” It was used since at least the 17th century, though it is rare today. An example includes “Seized by a scripturient urge, the author wrote thirty pages before stopping”
