It is my firm belief that our entire society would be better off if we had all watched more ‘Schoolhouse Rock’ as children. The way I see...

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One of my favorite things about being a writer is exploring the nuances of language — combing through my own vocabulary or a dictionary...

So many aspects of our daily lives are governed by feelings and emotions. They pop up in a myriad of situations, both personal and...

In the musical ‘The Little Mermaid,’ Ursula the sea witch makes a pun about a “squid pro quo” when drawing up a contract to take Ariel’s...

Aside from being the punchline to a joke about astronaut typists, the spacebar is the most-used key on any standard keyboard. In all...

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In reading more books about grammar than the average person probably does, I’ve encountered many metaphors for punctuation. My favorite,...

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An idiom is a commonly used phrase that has meaning as a whole, rather than just being the sum of its words. We’ve all heard them before,...

As writers, we’re often told not to overuse adjectives. Cutting down on adjectives is one of the best ways to uncomplicate your...

It’s difficult enough to parse the meanings of similar words, but the absolute worst is when two words sound almost identical but...

We’ve all been there: You’re on a roll writing your latest piece, in the midst of a sentence, and suddenly… What word goes here? Are...

No matter how many years you’ve worked as a professional writer, how many classes you’ve taken, degrees you’ve earned, or bylines and...

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No matter how many publications I write for, how many stories I knock out of the park (go me!) or how confident I feel in my talent —...