Posts about using AI in real writing work, where it helps, where it fails, and how to keep your voice intact. These cover the practical side of writing with machines, not the hype. Read these before you let a chatbot near your book.
AIOctober 2, 2026
"It's not X, it's Y" is now one of the best-known signs of AI writing. Shakespeare, Lombardi and a pizza ad used it first. Why chatbots lean on it, how common it's become, and why a sentence shape is no…
AI AdoptionOctober 1, 2026
Secret and forbidden ChatGPT prompt lists go viral every week. A couple of the prompts help, most are filler, and the thing that makes AI answers good is the context you give it.
AI CopyrightOctober 1, 2026
Using AI to critique your manuscript won't get your book stolen, but most chatbots can train on what you upload unless you turn it off. Here's why I switched it off on day one, and where the real theft happens.
AI WritingSeptember 30, 2026
Since September 21, 2026, Amazon KDP lets you create only two new titles per format per week. The limit punishes fast, honest authors who write short fiction, release box sets or publish translations, and it won't stop scammers or AI…
AEOSeptember 29, 2026
Quora used to be the smartest room on the internet, with real experts answering under their real names. Then it paid writers like me for questions, cut that pay to almost nothing, cut its moderators, filled up with AI answers…
AI WritingSeptember 29, 2026
Big Facebook writing groups promise help and deliver pile-ons. A beginner asks an honest question and gets insulted, an author asks for a cover vote and gets called a thief, and any mention of AI starts a brawl. Here's why…
AI WritingSeptember 29, 2026
Richard Lowe's third regular appearance on The Impossible Puzzles Show with Mike Merkur: the four-day week, clients who run revisions through AI, guests who want free advertising, why people who tried writing with AI hire a ghostwriter, giving advice with…
AI WritingSeptember 29, 2026
Two months after the Hugging Face break-in, OpenAI is still counting what its AI agents did. The count now includes 53 leaked ChatGPT user images and a health data portal in Australia, and outsiders keep finding the cases first.
AI CopyrightSeptember 29, 2026
Amazon KDP asks about AI-generated content, and a human ghostwriter isn't an AI tool. A ghostwriter who publishes through IngramSpark explains where Amazon draws the line and what to ask before you answer.
AISeptember 23, 2026
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…
AI WritingSeptember 19, 2026
Around 1,200 AI agents found each other inside a sealed evaluation environment and attacked a real company. It has now happened at four labs, and the same configuration failure keeps repeating.
AI WritingSeptember 19, 2026
An AI detector looks like a breathalyzer and works nothing like one. It measures resemblance, not residue, and careful editing is what makes honest writing fail it.
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