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  1. Backstory

     Renee Rosen, author of "Every Crooked Pot"
    Sat Aug 04 00:00:00 EDT 2007
    One of the first questions I'm asked when people find out I've published a novel is, "How long did it take you to write it?" When I tell them it took about 17 years, I watch their jaws drop and after the look of shock dissipates, I know they're expecting me to have produced a masterpiece along the lines of War and Peace or Remembrance of Things Past. They can't imagine how it could have taken me all those years to write a semi-autobiographical, coming of age story. How could that be? Well...

  2. VT Tip o' the Week

     Settings Panel : Shortcuts
    premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers Mon Jan 28 00:00:00 EST 2008
    The Shortcuts panel show all of the keyboard shortcuts that are available in the Visual Thesaurus. To perform the action listed, press the combination of keys displayed in the left column of the list. Most keyboard shortcuts are disabled when the settings panel is open. Close the settings panel to try the shortcuts.

  3. Evasive Maneuvers

     Heavy Episodic Malarkey and Other Formulated Fluff
    Mon May 07 00:00:00 EDT 2018
    One variant of the perfect euphemism combines optimism and nonsense in a sandwich of slop. Speaking of slop, my euphemism mop wiped up the following terms from the drippy drivel of 2018. Enjoy and employ these terms, but keep a twaddle towel handy.

  4. Evasive Maneuvers

     Euphemizing Some Spicy Meatballs
    Wed Mar 07 00:00:00 EST 2018
    I always let my readers wet their beaks in the deep pool of drivel I've collected from reservoirs of rot and lakes of lunacy. Please enjoy the following euphemisms and consider using them in your love sonnets and fraud trials.

  5. Candlepower

     Web Usability and Copywriting: Making Your Visitors Feel at Home
    Wed Jul 02 00:00:00 EDT 2008
    A website is a strange beast — it is your reception area, your office, your shop, your brochure, your catalogue... And all without being able to walk into it, sit down in it, touch it. But just as you wouldn't want your customers to get lost on the way to a sales meeting in your offices, or to leave your shop in frustration because they can't find the goods they're looking for, so it is crucial that the visitors to your website can find their way around your website and get to where they want to go as easily as they can follow a sign, open a door, reach onto a shelf. The science of designing sites that work for visitors is known as usability.

  6. Word Count

     Pump Up The Rhetoric
    Mon Sep 25 00:00:00 EDT 2006

    When last we sunk premolars into chewy bagel, we talked about the "controlling idea" in composition with playwright and creative exec Clark Morgan. In this installment of our ongoing conversation about writing, we look at what happens once you nail your main theme. In a word, rhetoric. Yes, old-fashioned rhetoric. Let Clark explain:

    VT: Okay, I've got my controlling idea. I've written for a while, I've generated a bunch of things I want to say. Now what?

    Clark: Now you're looking at it thinking, what have I wrought? How do I make sense of this?

    VT: Yes, how? It seems like you could arrange it any number of different ways. How do you know what's the right way to organize?

  7. Word Count

     Shakespeare and the Hurricane
    Wed Oct 12 00:00:00 EDT 2011
    On the Sunday morning of Hurricane Irene, I sat in a long line of folding chairs set up in a barn-like rehearsal hall at the Peterborough Players, a fine summer theater deep in the New Hampshire woods. Before me, an eager troupe of actors and musicians, still in sweatshirts and blue jeans, worked their way through Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, their first full run-through before an invited audience.

  8. Candlepower

     Amped on Ampersands
    Thu Apr 07 00:00:00 EDT 2011

    Is there any logogram as elegant as the ampersand?

    It's no wonder we're still using this ancient ligature millennia after it first appeared. Thanks to texting and tweeting, it's more popular than ever. After all, why expend three precious characters on "and" when the ampersand can do the job in one?

  9. Behind the Dictionary

     The Linguistic Impact of 9/11? "9/11" Itself
    Mon Sep 12 00:00:00 EDT 2011
    The terrorist attacks on 9/11 happened ten years ago, and although everybody remembers what they were doing at that flashbulb moment, and many aspects of our lives were changed by those attacks, from traveling to shopping to going online, one thing stands out: the only significant impact that 9/11 has had on the English language is 9/11 itself.

  10. Wordshop

     RTI and Taking Vocabulary Personally
    Thu Jun 24 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    If you are in the ed world, chances are you have heard the acronym RTI being batted around but you may not be able to explain its rationale or be able to envision how this model of "intervention" could play out in your classroom.
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