GhostwritingChronological order is the default, and it is why most memoir drafts stall somewhere in the middle. Braided timelines, opening in the middle of the crisis, and frame narratives, with the case for each.
GhostwritingThe legal risk is usually smaller than the relationship risk. Your sister probably will not sue you, but she might stop speaking to you. What exposes you, what does not, and the four approaches writers take.
GhostwritingMemory does not record, it reconstructs. A memoir carries two kinds of truth, factual and emotional, and most writers only think about the first. Where the two diverge is where the book gets difficult.
Artificial IntelligenceThe technology exists, it is improving, and writers are using it whether openly or quietly. The market is adapting regardless of whether anyone approves. The argument about whether that should be true is consuming energy that could go into the…
Artificial IntelligenceMost disappointing AI output is a briefing problem and not a model problem. What separates a request that produces something useful from one that produces competent, forgettable prose, and why the difference in quality is larger than people expect.
Artificial IntelligenceAI prose leaves fingerprints and readers register them before they can name them. Hedge phrases, connector parades, sterile rhythm. Five passes, in order, that take machine assisted text and make it sound like a person wrote it.
Artificial IntelligenceAI is genuinely useful for generating options, synthesising research and spotting patterns in your own work. It cannot judge whether a story works and it cannot produce a voice. Knowing which side of that line a task falls on removes…
Artificial IntelligenceAI is a brilliant colleague with total amnesia. Useful for generating options, useless for making decisions. A four step workflow, generate, evaluate, select, transform, that treats the tool as what it is instead of what the marketing says it is.
Writing TipsEvery rule in writing exists because it solves a real problem. Knowing which problem a rule solves is what tells you when it stops applying, which is the only useful way to decide whether to break it.
Writing TipsA writer who could not get the words right until she stopped trying to get them right. What changed, why it worked, and what it says about the difference between control and attention.
Artificial IntelligenceBoth claims get made loudly and neither survives contact with the evidence. What has changed, what has not changed at all, and where the honest disagreement sits once the shouting stops.
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