Jan 17, 2022
From my perch as a freelance editor for a venerable national magazine and its website, these are great. They're all words or phrases you hate seeing in articles. I'd add "optics" as in "the optics are bad" instead of, "It looks bad."
From my perch as a freelance editor for a venerable national magazine and its website, these are great. They're all words or phrases you hate seeing in articles. I'd add "optics" as in "the optics are bad" instead of, "It looks bad."
Critic, novelist, award-winning journalist. Former book editor of the Plain Dealer and book columnist for Glamour. Words in NYT, WSJ, and other major media.