Why this word is great
ELUCUBRATION — [Noun] The act of producing literary or scholarly work through long, intensive, and often nocturnal labor. From the Latin past participle of elucubrare ("to compose by lamplight"), from e- ("out, thoroughly") + lucubrare ("to work by lamplight"). Unlike composition, a neutral and bloodless term for any act of writing, or improvisation, which suggests a spark of spontaneous creation, elucubration is the marrow-deep archaeology of an idea pursued past midnight. It is the faint, greasy smudge of midnight oil on a manuscript page, the ache in the shoulders as the last coherent sentence is wrung from a weary mind, and the solitary pool of lamplight on a cluttered desk at three a.m.—the quiet, stubborn conviction that clarity must be excavated from a voluntary darkness.