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The crashing magic of sound symbolism

Brain training with an ex-parrot

Why we all should read the unlikeable H.L. Mencken.

How to manipulate a parent

Magic in the Great Green Room

Meet the Feghoot, a pun-enabled shaggy dog

The difference between rhetoric and propaganda

Write first, think later.

Tropes weaponize everything.

Soul Bending Rap

A persuasive occasion has four trenches.

Stop telling young writers to find their voice.

Shouldn't we persuade with truth and facts?

Instead of a humblebrag, try an honorflip.

A blizzard, a rhino, and the secret to framing.

That’s just, like, a figure of speech, man.

How a dictionary, and of course a mountain, help me rise above the fog.

To win over any audience, find the commonplaces.

AI created a genuinely creepy podcast about my next book.

Pronouns without antecedents ruin everything.

The college essay shouldn’t be wasted on college.

Is there such a thing as good grammar?

I’m an introvert. That’s why I love rhetoric.

Those Walz-Vance memes? Credit Chuck Norris.

Watch for the Gish Gallop tonight

A punctuation mark landed this guy in prison

Raw-Dogging: The idiom that only a Y chromosome could have written.

This Figure Has a Power We Can Measure

The secret to fear? Timing.

When Your Prose Should Ditch the Clown Costume

Humanity began when someone talked to the hand

Do we need a Society to Limit Acronym Proliferation (SLAP)?

The passive voice was used, and mistakes were made

Five Lost Words

How to argue with a kid

The joy of "meh"

How to verb

Magic word of the day: Weird

The useful art of soul bending

Rizz is a kind of magic