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A tautology is something that restates itself in a redundant way, sort of the opposite of an oxymoron. Like, “an added bonus”, “ATM machine” (Automated Teller Machine machine), or “if you know, you know” (my personal favorite).

In logic, a tautology is a formula that is necessarily true, or a statement that is self-evident. This is to say, a logical tautology isn’t really saying anything at all.

Style guides suggest finding and removing tautologies from writing. I agree — the best writing advice I ever got was: “Write less.”

The catch with writing very little is that you don’t get very good at writing. I want to write a lot, publish more, and get better.

To err on the side of do, the tautology.town will inevitably be home to drafts, scraps and, of course, tautologies.

And, I hope, some good stuff too.