When you’re writing, adjectives give you the most flexibility to create a vivid picture. It’s also easy to slip into a cliche series of mundane, familiar adjectives. Describing Words helps inspire you ...

This is one of 10 essays I offer as we close 2021 that I hope will help broadcast journalists tell stronger stories in the year ahead. Mark Twain offered some writing advice about adjectives: ...

Ours would be an awfully dull world if we didn’t have adjectives. Adjectives, words that describe or identify a person or thing – the beautiful troll, the syrupy pizza, the purple people-eater – are ...