A few years ago, browsing in a used bookstore in a town where I don't live (which, by the way, is a great strategy for finding titles that you might not enco...

One thing that makes the human species so unique is the complexity of our communication. We like to think of language as a fixed, reliable system, and while ...

[A note of apology: Ideally this should have been a Halloween-themed post, but the spirit didn't move me until this week.] As the waning year turns cold and ...

It's not always easy to market your editing skills. As someone who's been doing this for a few years now, I see two main reasons: 1) There are many kinds of ...

Welcome to The Village Wordsmith blog. I never really thought of myself as a wordsmith until my team members at the George Lucas Educational Foundation start...