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  1. Word Count

     How to Stop Yourself from Being a Quitter
    Mon Mar 25 00:00:00 EDT 2019
    Stop visualizing your bestseller and start thinking about what to do if you're unable to meet your goals. You can develop the writing habit if you develop the skill of predicting what might go wrong and figuring out a solution, in advance.

  2. Dog Eared

     "Dreyer's English": An Utterly Readable Style Guide
    Mon Mar 18 00:00:00 EDT 2019
    Is Dreyer's English "utterly correct"? Of course not, as the author would be the first to acknowledge. But it's compulsively readable, thoroughly helpful, and delightfully funny. For anyone who cares about writing well, it's an utterly essential addition to your shelf of most-reached-for reference books.

  3. Evasive Maneuvers

     Unplanned Descents into Drivel
    Mon Mar 11 00:00:00 EDT 2019
    Just as there are oodles of food trucks, there are mega-oodles of language emetics in the form of euphemisms. Please hate enjoying or enjoy hating the following.

  4. Language Lounge

     That Only Happens in the Movies
    Mon Mar 04 00:00:00 EST 2019
    Linguistics and Big Data have been a fruitful partnership since they first found each other, and new hookups with promising results are happening all the time. Here's a small sampling of the riches to be found in two new corpora — the TV Corpus and the Movie Corpus.

  5. Candlepower

     Under the Influence
    Mon Feb 18 00:00:00 EST 2019
    influencer – the word, not the status – is one of the most influential buzzwords of our era.

  6. Word Count

     How To Be Alone
    Fri Feb 15 00:00:00 EST 2019
    Even if you enjoy being alone, the exquisite loneliness of writing can still be tough. Here are five ways to deal with that.

  7. Evasive Maneuvers

     Engaged, Vintage, Deleted Drivel, Begob!
    Mon Feb 11 00:00:00 EST 2019
    Here are some of the euphemisms I've scraped, like barnacles, off the bloated boat of language. Do not attempt such hazardous, horsepucky-adjacent collection yourself.

  8. Language Lounge

     Teach Your Children Well
    Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 2019
    What happened (and is apparently still happening) in English-speaking societies that results in so much discourse about the problems in education? Here is some fodder for the discussion.

  9. Word Count

     How to Bolster Your Long-term Motivation for Writing
    Wed Jan 23 00:00:00 EST 2019
    Finishing a long-term project depends on persistence and stick-to-itiveness. Here are two big solutions to the long-term motivation problem.

  10. Evasive Maneuvers

     What, By Gosh, is Euphemism of the Year?
    Wed Jan 09 00:00:00 EST 2019
    It's that time of year when I choose a Euphemism of the Year. I've whittled the list down to four candidates, which are the lexical equivalent of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
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