Beyond the Rhetoric

Writing with good grammar is only one part of the equation. It’s great when you’re spelling is just right and you use the right kind of punctuation in the right places, but you also want your writing to be interesting to read. With that challenge comes the possibility of bending the grammar rules and you [...]

Life as a freelance writer is pretty sweet. You get to work whenever you want, wear nothing but your underwear all day long, and watch reruns of 30 Rock on Comedy Central all day long. The only drawback to the profession is being creative on demand. Sometimes what you write can feel forced and insipid [...]

It’s a question that I get asked from time to time: how do you write so much on such a consistent basis? Do you ever get writer’s block? As a professional freelance writer who works primarily on the web, it’s just the nature of the business that I’m constantly writing new content each and every [...]

English is a remarkably difficult language to learn if it isn’t your mother tongue. Let’s not even talk about all the grammar rules (and all the exceptions to all those grammar rules). Let’s even forget about idioms like the one above with questionable roots. What about idioms that can be contradicted with other idioms? Interestingly [...]

Thanks to a comment posted by Joanne, it was brought to my attention that I have not covered the difference between who and whom in a Grammar 101 post. They are very easily mistaken and used incorrectly. Fundamentally the same kinds of rules apply when choosing between who and whom as when you are choosing [...]