The last word
Plants are fueled by a simple sugar that results from a magic combination of sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide: glucose. To borrow from Dylan Thomas, glucose is “the force that through the green fuse...
View ArticleTropes are like jewels — or — How to put similes and metaphors to work for you
Want to wake up your readers? Poke them with a good trope. (I just poked you with one. Are you more awake now?) Tropes, aka similes and metaphors, are handy devices that compare one thing to another....
View ArticleGet Your But Out of There
But. However. Although. Do you ever use these words without contradicting anything? Sometimes I do, but I’ve come to see those instances as false buts. Let me try that again. “But. However. Although....
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