Erstwhile

Okay. Maybe Dolores didn't pan out and you're still stuck. Try this. Recall a moment when you had learned a new word and muscled it into a conversation. Write a scene about that. I know you've done it. I have. I spent four months of graduate school trying to work "limn" into every conversation. Someone else I know used "erstwhile," but got the definition wrong. He thought it meant esteemed. He set off a scandal at work by going around talking about his "erstwhile colleague" in the finance department.