Mignon Fogarty had plenty to be thankful for this holiday weekend. On Tuesday, November 21st, Grammar Girl’s Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing podcast passed over one million downloads.
Grammar Girl is a short, 5-minute podcast that gives a different tip each episode on how to improve your writing. It began in late July of this year.
After producing another successful podcast, Absolute Science, for over a year, Mignon noticed she enjoyed a shorter time format for certain podcasts. The idea for Grammar Girl came while editing a document containing a grammatical error she had noticed being made on a regular basis.
One million downloads in four months? The idea obviously was a good one. I asked Mignon what she thought about hitting such a feat:
“I’m still a little bit stunned by the success of the show, but it starts to feel real when I open my inbox every morning and it’s full of messages from listeners. I get wonderful, creative messages ranging from poems about people’s favorite (or most hated) words to photographs of funny misprinted signs, and of course I also get a deluge of e-mails when a typo or misplaced commas slips by into my transcripts.”
She added, “It’s also really rewarding to know that I’m helping people in other countries learn English, and helping teachers get their students excited about grammar.”
Grammar Girl has been featured as Podcast of the Day on the Podcast Pickle directory, in the “What’s Hot” section at iTunes, and earlier this month the Wall Street Journal wrote a story about the podcast for their weekend edition.
Subscribe to the podcast using this feed: http://www.qdnow.com/grammar.xml
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