What editors read.

As it happens, most all of my pleasure reading has to do with the research I’m doing, am going to do, or want to do, so, not surprisingly, these titles are practical while being fun and challenging, if you know what I mean. Here’s what is on my bedside...

Damning with Faint Praise

Damning with Faint Praise: Positive (Not!) Prose Are any of these phrases on your website? Do any of the feedbacks or testimonials on your site contain any of these phrases? Do you use any when describing your services, your products…yourself? Most of the...

Hello, Word Press???

Hey, before I’d comment on an SEO score, I’d make darn good and sure my sentences were correct! These are all run-on sentences, which is such a juvenile mistakes that it blows my mind. A friend of mine told me that the “sweet spot” for SEO...

Let's edit CNN! Its stuff is awful!

Wow, you’d think that with all the super smart people who work at CNN, you’d find correct copy. Don’t bet the house. Here are just a couple of things from just one article: 1) His campaign staffers set up a politically-active nonprofit… Gosh, I...