Why write in the first place? Its the second most satisfying thing you can do lying down. You must need to write. After 73 years of scribbling, Eric Nicol holds forth on dangling participles, punctuation, and literary jargon before examining his own career in a series of essays.
Eric Patrick Nicol was a Canadian writer, best known as a longtime humor columnist for the Vancouver, British Columbia newspaper The Province. He also published over 40 books, both original works and compilations of his humour columns, and won the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour three times.