Wordsmiths-in-training Mugs

'Frankly, Headmaster, the only way this boy could write a decent essay is if he kept his pencil still and I moved the paper!'

'I'm reading aloud, Jeremy - My lips are SUPPOSED to be moving!'

'When we get there let me do the double talking.'

"Too bad about old Ainsworth. Published and published, but perished all the same."

Ed Flanders, Deconstruction Worker

Campaign for Plain English

Library sections; Fiction, non-fiction and do-it-yourself.

'Darling I want you to remember this always,,,'

Thru versus Through Traffic

"Whenever he shows up everything turns to crap!"

"Meet The Author"

"Do me next."

First Novels.

"She's been so creative lately."

Edgar Allen Poe

"I didn't finish the proof but I did write this poem about my struggle."

Reading my Critics

Big Tex Silver Saddle Restaurant advertises 'BBQ, $10, Chatter in a Vanishing Regional Dialect $1.00 Extra.'

"Let me slip into something a little more thoughtful."

"Counsel for prose is overruled. Poetry, you may continue."

Backfire

A Copy Editor and His Dog

"No writers were harmed or mistreated in the preparation of this story."

Cut Price

'Why can't we have a texting bee?'

Someone who knows apostrophes

Why we need poetry. . .

What's normal?

"You've got to learn about verbs. How else are you going to verbalize your feelings?

Gone With the Wind: The Beach Blanket

"It turns out everyone here is self-published."

'How do you plead, in twenty-five words or less?'

It's Dostoevsky. It's Melville. It's Flaubert. But it doesn't dance.

"I just finished your manuscript and I found the ending delicious."

"Have you read any of Shakespeare's plays?"