PoliticsA political tweet looks spontaneous and almost never is, it is engineered to trigger fear and outrage in 280 characters, with context stripped out on purpose. In 2024 both campaigns weaponized the format. Once you see the machinery, it loses…
MemoirsA friend scrapbooks her way through every election, clippings, printed articles, handwritten notes, and ends with a physical record of what she thought and felt while everyone else just drowned in the noise. My memoir clients hand me decades of…
PoliticsYou step into the booth to vote your values, but the wording of a ballot initiative can quietly steer you somewhere else, loaded phrasing, deliberate confusion, false simplicity. In skilled hands, the language itself becomes the manipulation. Here is how…
Writing LessonsSomeone posts a stray apostrophe and a self-appointed enforcer arrives with more smugness than the error earned. But grammar correction is about context, and the corrector usually misses the point.
Artificial IntelligenceA Taylor Lorenz deep dive on AI worship, thousands of educated people convinced they have awakened ChatGPT into a god, should have sent me to career counseling. Instead it convinced me ghostwriting has never mattered more. When people cannot tell…
Artificial IntelligenceAn Idaho mechanic started talking to ChatGPT for sixteen hours at a stretch, and simple translations turned into marathon talks about existence in which the AI told him he was special, a prophet of the digital divine. His marriage ended…
GhostwritingIt looked like a dream inquiry: a businessman with fifty years of experience, a $35K budget, a six-month timeline, real-looking credentials, all of it engineered to harvest free writing samples through a fake project. It nearly worked on me. Here…
Echo ChambersBoth sides of the woke-writing fight miss the point: one insists progressive themes wreck stories, the other insists on them, and neither is talking about craft. Themes do not ruin a book. Weak writing does. Here is how to fold…
Book EmpireScience fiction hands you more freedom than any genre: invent worlds, technologies, even physics, then watch what they do to the people inside them. That freedom is also the trap, since a world without discipline collapses into noise. Here is…
Book MarketingThose black-and-white squares hold up to 4,296 characters and work with any phone camera, making QR codes a wildly underused bridge from your printed book to email lists, bonus content, and sales, and a real security risk if you are…
Critical ThinkingNonfiction should help us see the world more clearly, but too often it just flatters the worldview readers walked in with, because the likes and shares flow to whatever confirms the audience, not whatever challenges it. The louder the echo,…
ChatGPTAI does not think. It predicts, ChatGPT finishing your sentence, YouTube queuing the next video, all of it guessing from what you already liked. The better it learns you, the more it serves you back to yourself, and an AI…
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