Freelance Ghostwriter – the word for the day is affable.

According to Webster’s: from the Latin affabilis; pleasant and easy to approach or talk to; friendly; gentle and kindly.

Adjective form: affable; noun form: affability; adverb form: affably.

Usage: from the Wyatt Earp Screenplay starring Kevin Costner as Wyatt Earp, when Wyatt tells Ed he is basically too passive and friendly to be a lawman.

Ed Masterson: I’m just saying I believe I could’ve talked those guns off him.

Wyatt Earp: If I were you, I’d look for another line of work. Politics, maybe.

Bat Masterson: Ed’s got a different style is all, Wyatt. People like it.

Wyatt: You could get killed in this line of work, Ed. You could get people around you killed. This is a harsh land, Ed. It doesn’t suffer fools.

Ed: I’m not a fool, Wyatt.

Wyatt: No, you’re not. But you’re not a deliberate man, Ed. I don’t sense that about you. You’re too affable.

In that movie? Ed gets shot, trying to take the guns off of someone, being affable, and Wyatt was right, Ed got killed.

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