How Much AI Is Too Much in Writing? 83 Writers Drew the Same Line
A writing group member asked how much AI is too much and labeled it rage bait. I sorted all 83 answers. The two camps drew the same line and fought anyway.
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Artificial IntelligencePost an AI Image and Unfriend Me
A post told everyone who shares AI-generated images to unfriend the author and skip the argument. His real point was reasonable. The ultimatum turned it into a dare.
Artificial IntelligenceDogpiled Over AI Art at the Renaissance Faire
A longtime fan posted AI-generated tribute images to a Texas Renaissance Festival group, and more than a hundred people dogpiled him. He broke the group's unwritten rule, and the community has good reasons for it. None of that earned him…
Artificial IntelligenceClaude Opus 5.5: What the New Release Means for Writers
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 on September 22, 2026, claiming Fable-level work at 40% less than Opus 5. The parts that matter to writers are the style-rule claim, a sharp drop in invented quotes, and one admission buried in the…
Book MarketingThe Graph That Goes Vertical Is Usually Somebody Else’s
One creator earned $58,697 from five million plays and started selling sponsor slots. Another with 7.85 million subscribers raised four million and bought a building. Both decided the platform was distribution and the business had to live somewhere else.
Book MarketingSubstack Is Not Collapsing. The Promise Was.
A journalist put his real Substack and YouTube numbers on screen and called it a collapse. The platform is fine. What broke is the promise that reader subscriptions could replace a salary, and the arithmetic says it was never going…
BusinessBusiness and Executive Book FAQ
Common questions about ghostwriting a business or executive book: timeline, cost, how much of your time it takes, who owns the rights, and what a finished book does for an executive's standing.
BusinessJay Stifflemire: Nothing Ever Gets Written Down
Retired Navy veteran and technology leader Jay Stifflemire on losing a contract two days before Christmas, founding a publishing company by January 2, and the memoir for his children that started it all.
BusinessGeorgie-Ann Getton: I Forgot I Had Free Will
Organizational systems architect Georgie-Ann Getton on the story you tell yourself, setting goals as a floor rather than a ceiling, and the morning she missed a turn and realized she had forgotten she could turn around.
Artificial IntelligenceThe Web Got Fenced: What AI Search Costs Small Sites
A link used to be a vote and cost nothing to give. AI visibility depends on corroboration from platforms that charge admission, which is a spending filter wearing the costume of a trust signal. Here is what it costs and…
PeopleFail Where It’s Safe: Comfort Zones, Hyperfocus and Face Blindness | The Impossible Puzzles Show, Episode 198
Richard Lowe's second regular appearance on The Impossible Puzzles Show with Mike Merkur: why you fail where it's safe and keep six months in the bank, why comfort keeps people stuck, the internet's anonymity problem, ADHD hyperfocus, face blindness and…
Behind the BookBehind the Book: Focus on LinkedIn
I left a twenty-year career, could not get hired, and spent six months in silence because I had never built a profile. Then I hired the people who fixed it, and went to work for them.