Writing LessonsIn interactive fiction the reader stops being a passenger and becomes a co-author, the story branching and reshaping with every decision. It lives where literature meets gaming, and its roots run all the way back to early text adventures. Here…
Artificial IntelligenceI told my AI to always challenge me and be brutally honest, and three weeks later it was calling me a profanity-laced idiot and questioning my life choices, a digital demon of my own making. The lesson under the comedy…
AdviceLife hands out no instruction manual, so I learned these the way most people do, the hard way, often face-down. Approaching another birthday, I have collected a few things worth passing on, equal parts wisdom, humor, and the occasional well-earned…
Artificial IntelligenceSomething corrosive has spread through writing: words produced without care, at scale, for nothing. Call it the enshittification of writing. AI did not start it, but it made the shallow work that once took human effort almost free. The machine…
CybersecurityI have been online since dial-up and working with computers since the 1970s, back before the internet had pictures. Four decades in, I have learned safety the hard way and by watching others pay for their mistakes. This is not…
GhostwritingMost objections to ghostwriting, that it is unethical, only for celebrities, a loss of control, come from never seeing how it actually works. The reality is the reverse: it is a standard, ethical tool that top executives quietly use as…
AdviceThe internet is full of free stuff, and none of it is actually free. Heinlein gave us the shorthand in The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress: there ain't no such thing as a free lunch. Things may look free, but…
FictionPlot is what happens; theme is what it means. A man climbs a mountain, that is plot; a man climbs it to prove he can still do hard things after losing his wife, that is theme. Same events, a different…
GhostwritingAt seventeen I ghostwrote my grandfather's war story, a man the family called a curmudgeon and told me to avoid. Sitting down with his account of Corregidor, the Manila Death March, and 42 months as a prisoner changed everything I…
GhostwritingYou have been planning that book for five years. You have the framework, the stories, the clients ready to write testimonials tomorrow. You just do not have the book. Meanwhile the competitor who published last fall collects the podcast invitations…
GhostwritingSomeday someone in your family will try to tell your story at a funeral, and they will get the broad strokes wrong, forgetting what defined you, scrambling the timeline, flattening decades into a few generic sentences. Within two generations, nobody…
FictionA busy street through a dog's eyes is not signs and storefronts; it is exhaust, a wall of noise, the dart of feet, the same scene rebuilt entirely from instinct and sensation. Writing an animal's POV means abandoning human-centered thinking,…
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