The BiteDraft blog is where helpful writing advice meets the much more entertaining side of communication. You’ll find practical writing tips, helpful resources, message makeovers, tone advice, and plenty of lists like 25 Funny Ways to Say No, end an email, escape a conversation, or respond when you have absolutely no idea what to say.
Ever read a perfectly ordinary text and convinced yourself someone was mad at you? I've been there. Here's what I've learned about anxiety, misreading tone, and why I helped create a tool to make communication a little less complicated.
If you were born between 1965 and 1980, you trick-or-treated in a different country. It had the same streets and the same houses. Nobody was watching you.
My package is arriving today, according to a company that's also showing me it's in Ohio. I'm in California, but apparently we're both supposed to stay positive.
Nobody ever starts a fight with "I'm furious." They start it with "Sure. Fine." Then you're standing in the kitchen, phone in hand, rereading two words like a…