Kelly
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pumpkin
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Books:

Dennis Baron's "What's Your Prounoun? Beyond He & She" is a Timely Winner
February 27, 2020 - 2 Comments
Inspiration to All
December 10, 2019 - 1 Comment

Creativity:

Self-Partnered to Poppycock
December 11, 2019 - 5 Comments
How to Name Your Characters
November 4, 2019 - 3 Comments

Dictionaries:

Finding (or Inventing) Euphemisms in the Latest OED Update
November 13, 2019 - 4 Comments
Webster: the Weaseliest Word in Dictionaries
June 21, 2019 - 4 Comments

Fiction writing:

How to Name Your Characters
November 4, 2019 - 3 Comments
How to Become More Interested in What You're Writing
June 24, 2019 - 2 Comments

Grammar:

I May Not Know Grammar, But I Know What I Like
premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers April 3, 2020 - 3 Comments
"Dreyer's English": An Utterly Readable Style Guide
March 18, 2019 - 2 Comments

How to write:

Why Writers Should Use a Secret Sauce: Tracking
premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers February 24, 2020 - 4 Comments
How to Work with Difficult Editors
premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers January 22, 2020 - 4 Comments

Language:

Fiercely Real Humanism and Other Hooey in the Physical Distancing Age
premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers April 8, 2020
New Virus, New Words
March 30, 2020

Language arts:

The Enduring Impact of English Teachers on Students
April 28, 2015 - 4 Comments
The Art of Subterfuge: Using Pop Culture to Create Interest in the Classics
December 5, 2014 - 4 Comments

Poetry:

And Forget the He and She
December 2, 2019 - 2 Comments
In Praise of Ambiguity
July 23, 2014 - 2 Comments

Reading:

How to Read More Books
November 19, 2018 - 5 Comments
Pride and Prejudice and Natural Language Processing
April 2, 2018 - 2 Comments

Self-publishing:

The March of the E-Books
March 25, 2013 - 15 Comments
Self-Publish Your Writing!
November 28, 2011 - 4 Comments

Storytelling:

Murray's Mission: My Greatest Elementary School Memory
May 7, 2014 - 7 Comments
Type Casting
January 24, 2012 - 2 Comments

Vocabulary:

A "Dumpster Fire" of a Year
January 11, 2017
Getting the Low-down on Up-classify
July 14, 2016 - 2 Comments

Words:

Pronouns Prevail for Word of Year and Decade
January 10, 2020 - 1 Comment
Comparative Nonsense
November 1, 2019 - 5 Comments