Online Course Lady: Writing Laboratory

Beware the Nessie in your keyboard: the Caps Lockness Monster!

I think you all know this feeling! Writer's block... visualized:

And here they are on Letterman in 1989:

You can never have too much apostrophe humor...! :-) She texted me, "Your adorable." I replied, "No. YOU'RE ad...

Just when you thought you were getting used to the whole active versus passive thing, this cartoon by Mark Anderson comes along and messes ...

You've heard of Grammar Nazis... well, here is a Grammar Cat! :-) Found at: It's "National Grammar Day" by Lar...

The use of abbreviations was, in fact, extremely common back in the days when people had to go to the trouble of carving letters into stone,...

As someone who was in college back in the 1980s before the Internet, I can appreciate these vintage social networking tools... but I definit...

I'm not a user of thesauruses, but I am a fan of Fight Club , so I thought this was a very funny graphic!

I am not a big fan of the thesaurus... but I appreciate thesaurus humor! You can read more about the history of the thesaurus at Wikipedia....

So, what would the word "yesbody" mean...? And would the meaning of "nobody" change as a result...? I think I am a ...

No, passive-aggressive is not a voice like passive voice or active voice. But it is funny...! Active Voice . You ate six donuts. Pa...

I found this fun graphic at Twitter . And if you are wondering about the word lough, it's an Anglo-Irish word, which you might kno...

There are all kinds of "minced oaths" that are commonly used in English, like "darn" or "shoot" or (one of my ...

Thoughts, both humorous and profound, about the writing process from PhDComics.com . Here is a detailed view:

Dan Piraro (Bizarro) is one of my favorite cartoonists, and here is his caveman take on speech balloons; you can read more about speech bal...

I think the cartoon would be even funnier if the sign were in Comic Sans, a font that everyone seems to love to ridicule - but I confess: I ...

I shared a Game of Thrones: Character Arc Generator at this blog a while ago... so I thought that in honor of International Cat Day, I woul...

Maybe the story you want to retell would work with animal characters! You could choose to work with animals of different species (with the d...

Onomatopoeia is a great writing technique but, as you can see in this delightful cartoon by Scott Hillbrun , it is no way to defend an empir...