Category: Wonderings

• March 30, 2016

  #ModernCollectiveNouns

    What a lovely thing: #ModernCollectiveNouns trended on Twitter today. A game based in creative grammar (not an oxymoron), trending! A literally of white girls #moderncollectivenouns — Feja Dooley (@feja_dooley) March 30, 2016 #ModernCollectiveNouns an absence of libraries — Frank Cottrell-Boyce (@frankcottrell_b) March 30, 2016 #ModernCollectiveNouns A tickle of sprinkles pic.twitter.com/xS7pryrmSn — Eric Schwartz (@ericschwartz)…
• March 23, 2016

  Let’s All Be Descriptivisists

  A typical married conversation: “How was your day?” “pretty crap BUT I SAW 3 DOGS” “OMG WHAT KIND OF DOGS” — TechnicallyRon (@TechnicallyRon) March 22, 2016 You see how that’s funny? I found it very funny. It’s mainly funny because of the flat delivery. How did that happen? Creative use of punctuation – in this…
• March 22, 2016

  When the Big Guys Shit On the Little Guys

  Instagram’s doing it, Twitter’s doing it – chronological timelines will soon be a thing of the past. Sure, we’ll get over it in like a week once all the folks in digital marketing have published their blogs and started tweeting about something else. But what about small businesses? All the illustrators, sculptors, tattoo artists, furniture…
• March 18, 2016

  Things We’ve Achieved Together

    We’ve counselled sadness, anger, overexcitement and scaredy-catness. We’ve listened to 40-line direct message rants. We’ve discussed comma splicing, malapropisms, over-adverbing and Fit Boys. We’ve got braver with pricing. We’ve stood up for our writing. We’ve learned how to spot and deal with dickheads. We’ve used our individual subject areas to help each other with scary new…
• March 17, 2016

  Welcome to Copywriting

  For those of you new to copywriting as a career, my copybuddies and I will be putting on a free Saturday talk this April. NO MORE SPACES LEFT I’M AFRAID Rather than a plain old introduction to copywriting, this is a welcome. In the spirit of #copywritersunite, we want to draw you into the fold with…