Artificial IntelligenceAfter editing hundreds of AI-generated articles, I can name machine prose in about three sentences, not from talent but because the tools repeat the same tells endlessly. Once you see them, you cannot unsee them, and that is the good…
BusinessGetting paid to write is harder than it should be, but hard is not impossible. The writers who earn well are rarely the most talented, they are the ones who treat writing as a business. Here is what that actually…
FictionLong before VR or open worlds, Zork held players spellbound with nothing but text and imagination. I spent the early 1980s navigating both college and its mazes. Here are nine highlights from the text adventure that proved gameplay could thrive…
GhostwritingUsing a ghostwriter for a family story isn't cheating when the memories and voice belong to the family. How to keep the book honest: your relative's own words, their letters, family review, and no invented scenes.
GhostwritingI proposed at Wendy's on our third date, and then we married four times in a single week. It is not a story about a couple who kept getting it wrong; it is about finding your person and watching the…
GhostwritingDexter ran a secret lab out of his bedroom while his sister wrecked it every time she wandered in. Improbably, the cartoon is a decent primer on ghostwriting: invisible work, chaotic collaborators, rival writers, and the art of speaking in…
MemoirsEvery person carries a whole world inside their head, decades of lessons, turning points, close calls, failures, and when they die, all of it vanishes. Your grandkids inherit photos and a few secondhand stories that shrink with each retelling, until…
GhostwritingThe people who can verify your stories are getting older, and some are already gone, the brother who was there, the roommate, the mother who knows the family history you never asked about. A memoir is not just your memory;…
Artificial IntelligenceA client swore they got better output from ChatGPT by cursing at it. I laughed, then got curious, then realized they were right, frustrated and blunt usually means specific, and specific beats polite every time. The lesson is not really…
Artificial IntelligenceUsing AI as a tool and using it to replace human writing are two different things, and the gap is not closing as fast as the hype suggests. Here is where AI consistently falls short for writers, and what it…
FictionA knight asks a farmer for directions, walks three steps, returns, and asks again, and again, and what looks like absurdist comedy is really a meditation on free will and being programmed to serve someone else's story. Viva La Dirt…
BusinessEvery January it surfaces: this is the year I write my book. Every December it is still unwritten. The graveyard is full of untold stories, empire-builders and leaders whose wisdom died with them because they waited for the right time.…
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