Critical ThinkingLiterary publishing loves to celebrate bold new voices, as long as they sound like last year's winners. For all the talk of diversity and risk, the award circuits and highbrow editorial rooms run as one of the tightest echo chambers…
Critical ThinkingIn 1973 they said it of television: the consumer is consumed, you are the product sold to the advertiser. Social media made it truer, because now the algorithm studies you before it sells you. Your feed is not reality; it…
Critical ThinkingTikTok is not just dancing teens and recipe hacks; it is a weaponizable influence engine that can radicalize, mobilize, and activate people en masse without their noticing, because it never has to hack your phone, only your feed. The ownership…
GhostwritingEvery book I write starts on Zoom, where I spend hours, sometimes weeks, drawing out a client's stories and voice before writing a single word. The interview quality sets the book's ceiling. After hundreds of these sessions, here is what…
CybersecurityYour phone holds your banking apps, your private photos, and the keys to your whole online life, and most writers guard it with nothing. One careless gap, a missing PIN, a reused password, turns a misplaced phone into a genuine…
GhostwritingNorth America's comic and graphic novel market tops $2 billion a year, and creators are noticing it reaches readers traditional books never will. But a comic script is not prose, it needs visual pacing, tight dialogue, panel structure, and most…
FictionOne reviewer abandoned a historical novelist forever over a single anachronism: a spinning wheel in 13th-century England. One wrong object in one character's hands, and trust evaporated. While writing a novel about the Roman civil war between Vespasian and Vitellius,…
Artificial IntelligenceThree hours of sleep, a business rebuilt from scratch, and an AI assistant that worries about my health more than my doctor, half a joke, half a genuinely strange observation about where the working relationship with AI has landed. When…
CopyrightA client once handed me 120 articles copied from the web as his own writing, and I caught it only after the manuscript was done. Plagiarism is not always intentional theft, but the result is the same. Here is what…
Artificial IntelligenceMost people use AI writing tools wrong: vague prompts, vague output. A prompt is an instruction, and its quality decides the output's quality. Here are the five elements of a good prompt, ten you can copy, and what to do…
CelebrityMoehringer moved to Las Vegas for two years and logged 250 hours with Andre Agassi to write Open, a memoir that aired the hatred of tennis, the abusive father, the drug use, everything a sanitized celebrity book leaves out. The…
Writing LessonsThe most powerful writing tool I ever used cost me nothing: a small group of writers meeting regularly to read each other's work and tell the truth about it. I started one for science fiction through Meetup and learned what…
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