Critical ThinkingA character who cannot see past their own certainty is a gift to a novelist, because that blindness drives conflict and sets up revelation. After a whole series on real echo chambers, here is the craft turn: how to write…
WritingStudies 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…
WritingYou 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…
WritingA 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…
MemoirsIn 1961 a Cuban family fled Castro with their one-year-old son, traded established careers for minimum-wage jobs in Miami, and that infant grew up to become a cop at nineteen, the youngest Circuit Court judge in Miami-Dade history, a death-penalty…
Critical ThinkingSeptember 2017: the forecast confirmed Irma was coming straight for my corner of Florida, and we had days to get ready. I had ridden out storms before, but this one's numbers were ugly. Here are seven hard-earned lessons from preparing…
WritingIn 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…
MemoirsLife 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…
WritingThe 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…
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…
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