Musings On Good (and Bad) Writing

The easy answer is fewer because you can count thrones. But if you’re talking about “Game Of Thrones” as a...

Thomas Jefferson finding typos in the Declaration of Independence? A royal scrivener having to squeeze the last sentence into the...

The next time you burn the roof of your mouth eating hot pizza, consider this: Isn’t the roof of the...

Literally for Virtually or Figuratively Another mass-misused word is “literally” when the writer or speaker means “virtually” (nearly, almost) or...

As my Dad used to say, “Eschew obfuscation.” In plain English, he jokingly meant to avoid using sesquipedalian words if...

Not all Corporate Communications (CC) writing is horrible. But much of it exists in a landscape of cliché and jargon-laden,...

This clip from Monty Python Flying Circus’s “Pirana Brothers” sketch illustrates their comedy-writing genius. Perhaps only they could make a...

Clichés are writing devices that have long outlived their use-by dates. I like to imagine the first person to come...

Misuse is a subset of word choice. It’s not that there’s a better similar word. You’ve just picked the wrong...