Posts
- “Explore and Heighten”: Magic Words From a Playwright
- “Her and I”: How to banish painful personal-pronoun pairings
- “I Used to Be an Ex-Manager” and More Than over 1100+ Other Redundant Phrases
- “Language Matters” Recorded Webinar
- “That” Doesn’t Go without Saying
- “The Language of Content Strategy”—Now Available
- “To be” or not “to be”: A challenge
- “Word Up!” Stacks Up Well in “Psychology Today”
- “Write the Docs”—A New Conference Comes to Portland April 8-9
- “Write Tight(er)”
- "Managing Enterprise Content" 2nd Ed.: A Book Review
- Be-Verbs: The Bumper Sticker
- The Kindle Book Review Names Word Up! a Semifinalist
- Word Up! (มหาวิทยาลัย – UP) Goes Thai
- Word Up! a Finalist in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards
- Word Up! Advance Reader Copies—Get Yours Today
- Word Up! Feels the Power of Social Media
- Word Up! Gets a Social-Media Makeover by the “APE” Team
- Word Up! Gets Amazon Review #100
- Word Up! Gets APE’d by Guy Kawasaki (That’s a Good Thing)
- Word Up! Goes to School
- Word Up! Goes to School (Part Two)
- Word Up! Goes to the Movies
- Word Up! Kindle Edition Hits #1 — Get It for $2.99 This Week Only
- Word Up! Lifts Off with a Caption Contest
- Word Up! Makes Finalist in Foreword Reviews “Book of the Year” Awards
- Word Up! Now On Kindle
- Word Up! Wins a Discovery Award from IndieReader
- Word Up! Wins an IndieFab Award
- Word Up!—All Grown Up with Its Own Google+ and Facebook Pages
- You Can Say That Again—A new book (I mean, a book) is born today
- A Book Birthday
- A Definition Is Where You Don’t Say "Is Where"
- A Modern Take (Is Take a Noun?) on Parts of Speech
- A Story about Tell a Story Day
- A Story for Technical Writers
- Amazon Has Word Up! Available to Preorder
- Apple Watches Are Wearing Employees!
- Be-Verb Bumper Stickers Make a Comeback
- Book #1!
- Book review – “Spunk & Bite: A Writer’s Guide to Bold, Contemporary Style” by Arthur Plotnik
- Caroline Leavitt Interviews Marcia Riefer Johnston
- Celebrate #Shakespeare400, Ye Bawdy Flap-Mouthed Wagtails
- Coming soon to the small screen
- Coming Soon to the Small Screen (revisited)
- Commas around Appositives—When and Why?
- Do You Feel Bad or Feel Badly?
- Do Your Readers a Favor: Cut “It” Out
- Don’t “Be” the Reaper
- Don’t say “just” (I’m just saying)
- Empower Your Team to Write with One Voice While Still Sounding Like Themselves
- Enough
- Etymology Saves the Day
- Find Long Sentences Instantly in Your Microsoft Word Docs
- Foreword Thinking
- Free Kindle Edition of “Word Up!”
- Get Your But Out of There
- Good-bye, Old Blog. Hello, New!
- Goodreads Giveaway: Win a FREE Autographed Copy of Word Up!
- Got a Book in You? Go APE.
- Grammar Girl Posts My Take on “It”—An Easy Fix to a Devilishly Common Writing Problem
- Happy Plain English Day—Dec 14
- Have You Supported Information Freedom Lately?
- Hello, Writing.Rocks
- Help Your Organization Find Its Voice [video]
- Hemingway’s Style and Today’s Business Writer
- Highlight Passive Voice (and Be-Verbs in General) Instantly in Your Microsoft Word Docs
- How Do a Bunch of People Write with One Voice?
- How Global Is Your English? 8 Ways to Keep It Simple—And Save Big
- How Many Prepositions Can You Use in a Row? Or … When Is a Preposition an Adverb (or a Verb Particle)?
- How Not to Do How-To
- How to Choose Your Words on the Web? Put Them to the Test
- How to Write a Sentence [INFOGRAPHIC]
- How to Write a Sentence—Get the Infographic As a Poster
- How to Write Ridiculously Good Content: Ann Handley’s 12-Step Infographic
- How to Write the Kind of Descriptions Your Readers Crave
- Hyphens unite!
- Inside STC’s Content Strategy Virtual Conference with Marcia Riefer Johnston
- Intelligent Content Conference Feb 7-8 in San Francisco
- Interview by Novelist Ryan Schneider
- Interview by The Content Wrangler, Scott Abel
- Interview with “Technical Writer in Action” Founder, Angel Candelario Rodriguez
- It’s NaNonFiWriMo (National Nonfiction Writing Month)
- It’s National Grammar Day
- Kindle Edition Now Only $2.99 for Amazon Print-Book Buyers
- Kristina Halvorson is Down with “Word Up!”
- Lend Your Commas a Hand–or Two
- Let me count the — different? — ways
- Long live prescriptivists
- Make a Hash(tag) of Your Tweets
- Marcia Talks Up Writing on AM Northwest
- Mastering the art of knowing your audience
- Maxwell Hoffmann Reviews Word Up! for the Society for Technical Communication
- New Trailer for Word Up!
- Noah Never Had to Build an ARC (Advance Reading Copy)
- Northwest Brainstorms Publishing Has a New Logo
- Once Upon a Time at Powell’s Books: A Fairy Tale in Pictures
- Organizing Hard So Information Is Why?
- Our Transitions, Ourselves
- Parallelism: Give Your Writing a Left Edge
- Portland workshop October 8: “Content Strategy in a Day” with Rahel Bailie
- Put the customer first in your sentences (courtesy of KnowledgeOwl)
- Re-vising
- Recipe Contest: The XMLonball Splash–We Have a Winner!
- Right Words, Right People, Right Place, Right Time
- Running On About Run-Ons
- Say One Thing
- Seeking 10 More Redundant Phrases—Help Me Hit 1000!
- Sentence Diagrams in the Air
- Still High from the Intelligent Content Conference 2013
- SuperURL to the Rescue!
- Ta Ta, Tighten This!
- Talk — I mean obfuscate — your way to the top
- Talk Up Writing with Me on Blog-Talk Radio
- Technical Communicators, Did You Feel the Wave?
- The Annals of Redundancy Annals
- The Changing Landscape of Bookselling
- The last word
- The only thing that these signs have in common
- The pen is mightier than the shovel
- The Presumption Trap
- The proverbial “proverbial”
- The Rose City Reader, Gilion Dumas, Gives a Thumbs Up to Word Up!
- They Couldn’t Wait to Get Their Hands on “Word Up!”
- Think small
- Tighten This! A Special Emergency One-Time-Only Revival Competition Edition
- Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 1 [game]
- Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 10 [game]
- Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 11 [game]
- Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 12 [game]
- Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 13 [game]
- Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 14 [game]
- Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 15 [game]
- Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 16 [game]
- Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 17 [game]
- Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 18 [writing/editing game]
- Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 19 [writing/editing game]
- Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 2 [game]
- Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 20 [writing/editing game]
- Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 21 [writing/editing game]
- Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 22 [writing/editing game]
- Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 23 [writing/editing game]
- Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 24 [writing/editing game]
- Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 25 [writing/editing game]
- Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 26 [writing/editing game]
- Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 27 [writing/editing game]
- Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 28 [writing/editing game]
- Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 29 [writing/editing game]
- Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 3 [game]
- Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 30 [writing/editing game]
- Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 31 [writing/editing game]
- Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 32 [writing/editing game]
- Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 33 [writing/editing game]
- Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 34 [writing/editing game]
- Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 35 [writing/editing game]
- Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 36 [writing/editing game]
- Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 37 [writing/editing game]
- Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 38 [writing/editing game]
- Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 39 [writing/editing game]
- Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 4 [game]
- Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 40 [writing/editing game]
- Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 41 [writing/editing game]
- Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 42 [writing/editing game]
- Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 43 [writing/editing game]
- Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 44 [writing/editing game]
- Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 45 [writing/editing game]
- Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 46 [writing/editing game]
- Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 47 [writing/editing game]
- Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 48 [writing/editing game]
- Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 49 [writing/editing game]
- Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 5 [game]
- Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 50 [writing/editing game]
- Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 51 [writing/editing game]
- Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 52 [writing/editing game]
- Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 53 [writing/editing game]
- Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 54 [writing/editing game]
- Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 55 [writing/editing game]
- Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 56 [writing/editing game]
- Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 57 [writing/editing game]
- Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 58 [writing/editing game]
- Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 59 [writing/editing game]
- Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 6 [game]
- Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 60 [writing/editing game]
- Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 7 [game]
- Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 8 [game]
- Tighten This! Challenge Sentence 9 [game]
- To each their own
- To Hyphenate or Not To Hyphenate After a Noun: That Is the Wrong Question
- Tom Johnson Interviews Marcia at the Intelligent Content Conference
- Tom Johnson’s Summary of Our Conversation
- Tom Robbins and the audacity of humor
- Touching words
- Tribute to a teacher who put “Word Power” in his students’ hands
- Tribute to a teacher… one more time
- Tropes are like jewels — or — How to put similes and metaphors to work for you
- Try not to try
- twitter wins
- Unselfies: Words Worthy of a Thousand Pictures
- Use contrast: The long and short of it
- Video Interview: Marcia and Darin Hammond
- Video Testimonials for Word Up!
- Want to Write Well? Open a Doerr
- We Have a Release Date for the Book: “Word Up!”
- What a (Noun) Cluster
- What Brand R U?
- What I did on my summer vacation
- What’s your brand?
- When is a step not a step?
- Who’s your Sam?
- Whom ya gonna call?
- Why unravel when you can tink or frog?
- Wonky Words in the World
- Words for People
- Words on Writing: a Glossary is Born
- Workshop Thanks
- Write Tight(er) Workshop in PDX Nov. 21
- Writers, How Much Should You Leave Unsaid?
- Writing Workshop at the Information Development World Conference
- Yes, You Can Jump-start a Car with a Prius: A Technical-Communication Hero Story
- You Can Love a Book by its Cover
- You Don’t Know From Prepositions
- You’ll Want to Take This Espresso Black … and White (and in Color)
- Your Words Come Alive With a Hint of Music
