Kelly
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Books:

"Dreyer's English": An Utterly Readable Style Guide
March 18, 2019 - 1 Comment
"Talk on the Wild Side" Is a Sharp Ode to Our Unruly, Resilient Language
December 21, 2018 - 1 Comment

Creativity:

"Disruptive" Names
October 24, 2018 - 3 Comments
Why I'm Writing This Column on a Treadmill
October 18, 2018

Dictionaries:

The Evasion-English Dictionary: A Smart Bomb Aimed at Sneaky, Self-deluded Language
August 31, 2018 - 3 Comments
Help for Harried Justices
August 1, 2017

Fiction writing:

"Disruptive" Names
October 24, 2018 - 3 Comments
Do You Agree With These Quotes About Writing?
November 17, 2017 - 5 Comments

Grammar:

"Dreyer's English": An Utterly Readable Style Guide
March 18, 2019 - 1 Comment
80th Column: Verbal Oddities
October 31, 2016 - 13 Comments

How to write:

How to Develop the Writing Habit
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How to Stop Yourself from Being a Quitter
premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers March 25, 2019 - 3 Comments

Language:

Pro-informed Partisan Palaver Starring Heckboy
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Get Real
premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers May 1, 2019 - 6 Comments

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:

In Praise of Ambiguity
July 23, 2014 - 2 Comments
How the Rediscovery of a Poem Helped Kickstart the Renaissance
July 9, 2014 - 1 Comment

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:

French Letters and Their Uses
December 3, 2018 - 5 Comments
Like Wildfire
November 21, 2018 - 1 Comment