How to write clicky headlines (and how I learned)
Newsrooms had changed when I went back, in some ways for the worse. But for all I disliked about …
How to mix a cocktail of metaphors
One of my witty writer friends responded to my newsletter about style by suggesting I write next …
What prose styles tell us about our minds
English prose styles change through time like musical or artistic styles, but within the period of a …
In praise of long sentences
Shorter sentences aren’t always easier to understand, whatever you may have heard from your …
Please, please don’t use ‘experience’ as a verb
I’m OK with anything you do with the English language that makes it more expressive and doesn’t …