The Best Word Games to Get Competitive Over
Word games are the best because anyone can play them. You use words all day, every day. Even if you’re not speaking or writing, your thoughts are made of words. You know how to use your words. Here are...
Writing for Love vs. Money
“Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.” – Moliere Depending on what stage of your career you’re at (as a writer), that...
3 Vocabulary-Building Games to Play with Toddlers
Why is little Johnny across the road speaking in full sentences while your little darling is stuck on goo, ga and dljhkfwncsjadjbhlk? It could be because you’re not teaching her to use her words. Don’t...
Are #WeddingHashtags Taking Away the Magic?
#JohnAndJaneGetHitched. #MacDonaldWedding. #MrAndMrsBonacini. #HappilyEverWilson. If you’ve been on Instagram in the past year or so, you’ll have seen your fair share of these. Custom wedding hashtags...
The Lost Art of Letter Writing
Can you believe there was actually a time when waiting on someone’s reply lasted weeks, if not months? And people these days struggle to respond to texts in the same day, blaming it on “being too busy.”...
Praise the Post-it Note
Bookmark, reminder, confession, lunch note, organizer, art medium — you name it. Post-its have played the role. Sex and the City’s Carrie Bradshaw even got dumped with one. Heck, the notes outlining...
The Beauty and Meaning Behind Your Handwriting
Our handwriting says a lot about us. As graphologists (people who analyze handwriting) will tell you, it can reveal thousands of character traits. So you might want to consider typing out that ransom letter...
A quick experiment
The other day, Dan’s two-and-a-half-year-old discovered this video on YouTube. Click the link and skip ahead to the 1:47 point and watch the Lion song. It’s less than a minute. Do it now then...
We love Donald Trump. Seriously.
By Dan & Gina Now, now…before you get all judgmental and “well-I’d-never-work-with-these-idiots,” just keep reading. We don’t love the Donald’s adversarial, bullying approach. We don’t...
Watch Your Commands: Ad Words That Bite
When you’re advertising to people, you need to be approachable. Think of how you’d talk to someone if you knocked on their door. You have a very short period of valuable time in which to win them over....
Texting Etiquette for Saying What You Mean
As many of your arguments can probably attest, intent in text messages is often lost. Tone and body language aren’t there, so words have to speak for themselves. While we often do our best to say what...
How to Read a Speech Someone Else Wrote (and Own It)
A while back, we wrote about how to write a speech for someone else. So we thought it was only fair to write about what to do with it once it’s done. Because we know you can’t leave an audience hanging....