WritingI wanted a contemplative little studio philosopher and got Sylvia Plath in hamster form, waking at 6:47 AM sharp with an existential crisis disguised as a to-do list. Catfood the neurotic hamster turned out to be a perfect lens on…
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.
FictionYou wake and the world has quietly agreed on a lie that rewrites physics itself, your neighbor calls the eastern sunrise a western one and means it. From Semmelweis dying in an asylum to Cassandra screaming at the gates of…
Critical ThinkingThis is about reasoning, not partisanship. A widely shared op-ed by a Democratic strategist makes for a clean case study, confident, persuasive on the surface, and built on a stack of logical fallacies and cognitive bias. Picking it apart teaches…
Writing LessonsEvery January I set ambitious annual goals, and every March they are rubble, buried under client deadlines and surprises. A year is simply too long to hold focus. What actually produces books for me is daily goals and task-based deadlines.…
Writing LessonsWriters live and die by word choice, and a larger vocabulary means more options, not bigger words. Here are twelve ways to expand yours, plus how vocabulary works for ghostwriters, across professions and regions, and in invented fictional languages.
Writing LessonsStudies suggest, many believe, it could be argued, weasel words slither through your writing sounding professional while quietly hollowing out everything you say. The name comes from the weasel's trick of draining an egg and leaving the shell intact, which…
Writing LessonsYou sit down to write and nothing comes. You type a sentence, hate it, delete it, and try again. Writer's block is not laziness or lack of talent; it has specific causes, and once you can name yours, you can…
Writing LessonsA dictionary is not a spelling crutch you outgrew in school. It is the tool that separates a writer who means exactly what they say from one who reaches for the closest word and hopes. Here is why it is…
FictionFalling into bad writing habits is easy; recognizing them is harder. Most writers know the obvious ones, but dozens of subtler habits creep in unnoticed. Here is a working checklist by category, with examples, so you can spot each one…
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…
Book MarketingPost your best work to 127,000 followers and get 47 likes; a kid filming himself eating cereal upside down to 180 followers pulls 2.3 million views. That is the algorithm working as designed, turning creators into gambling addicts and follower…
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