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When creativity goes super-niche

It’s time to find your inner outsider, whether that’s lawn artist, duct-tape clothing designer, or odd title writer.

Mind the Gap: On semicolons

Kicking off Mind the Gap, our series on punctuation, the semicolon is seen by some as confusing, pretentious, or even pointless. To others, it’s an essential artistic choice.

Rogue postcards from Ireland

When you visit a place, what makes you look? Put your snapshots side by side and patterns emerge, revealing where you were and what you felt.

Et tu, Ampersand?

Love it or hate it, the ampersand has its own holiday, & we are celebrating.

Do you know where your apostrophe is?

On International Apostrophe Day, we celebrate our favorite punctuation offender.

How to use a long dash like a human

AI loves the em dash, and we’re good with that – thanks to our rogue use of its cuter little brother.

On Death and AI

Did you know that AI is writing obituaries now? It makes sense, given how ubiquitous artificial intelligence has become in our modern world.

When Punctuation is a Crime

I don’t know which offends more: the graffiti or the poor writing mechanics.

It’s All Geek to Me

My husband is fluent in geek. He’s a software engineer, so he obviously learned it on the job. But I’m sharing his secrets, so you can learn to speak geek too.

What’s a Snark Mark?! Quirky Punctuation You’ve Never Seen

Get ready to have your mind blown. I’m about to share five obscure punctuation marks that you’ve always needed in your life but never knew existed.

Our Most Expensive Blog Post Yet

They say that every mistake is a learning opportunity in disguise. If that’s true, I once had a doozy of an opportunity. And it came with a hefty price tag.

The Sixth Sense of a Copywriter

With Halloween coming up, I’m going to reveal something spooky. I hear dead people.

Forget Everything You Learned in School, Part 17,593

On a flight home from grading hundreds of the 280,000 five-paragraph essays submitted for the Advanced Placement Test in English + more

My Kind of Deadline

The most recent edition of the Oxford English Dictionary—the 600,000-word “Victorian phenomenon” that is, in fact, my favorite lexical record—was + more

Stop! Grammar Time!

Those who spend any amount of time around me know that I don’t suffer pretentious writers gladly. Like people who + more

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