Is it possible to write an unreadable book? Yes. How might one go about doing so? There are many things an author can do to mangle a manuscript. You can be way too repetitive. You can write like Donald Trump speaks: Incoherently. You can inflate a sentence to the...
And here comes our new president, Donald J. Trump. He has called on the carpet the bosses of news media and journalists and whipped them for writing stories that he believes are erroneous. The meeting was in secret but I imagine Trump laid out some threats. Mr. Trump...
I had no idea that Barack Obama curses before public speaking. I think I know at whom he curses before going on stage. I was as shocked to read that as I would have been to hear that 1950s-’60s movie star and cinematic symbol of chastity and virtue Doris Day...
My business partner suggested last night that we ought to review some speeches and comment on what makes them great, or not so great. How about we begin with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s remarks in Florida on the date above? Among other...
I don’t know how Eric reacts when he’s engrossed in a book or article and comes across a misspelled word, or the wrong word, a punctuation error or big grammatical goof, but I can certainly tell you how I react. The flow STOPS. I mean literally stops. To...
A few days ago, my partner suggested that I do a blog post about President Barack Obama’s speech at the 2016 Democratic National Convention. It was a riveting speech. I watched every second of it. What he had in mind was the importance of quality speechwriting....
