Janice Harayda
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."

--

--

Janice Harayda
Janice Harayda

Written by Janice Harayda

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.

Responses (1)