Does Human Writing Have a Soul?
The favorite argument against AI writing is that it has no soul. A one-prompt book has none, but plenty of human writing doesn't either. The soul in writing is the little human parts the author puts on the page.
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AI vs Human GhostwritingDoes AI Have a Soul? Wrong Question
Asking whether AI has a soul misses the point, because art itself has no soul. The soul lives in the mind that made the work and the mind receiving it, and Game of Thrones showed how fast an audience feels…
AI WritingThe Back of the Book: Index, About the Author, Acknowledgments and Back Cover Copy
Everything after the last chapter serves a reader who already bought your book, and the back cover sells it to one who hasn't. I cover indexes, author bios, acknowledgments and back cover copy, and what I recommend for each one.
AIIs Writing With AI Theft? Stop Calling Writers Thieves
Writing with AI isn't theft. The legal fight is over how AI companies trained their models, and those suits target the companies. Calling an individual writer a thief for using a tool is a rotten thing to do.
AIIt’s Not X, It’s Y: The AI Tell Shakespeare Wrote First
"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 Adoption“Forbidden” AI Prompts: Why Viral Prompt Lists Are Mostly Junk
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 CopyrightWill AI Steal My Book? Turn Off Training Before You Upload
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 WritingKDP’s Two-Book Weekly Limit Punishes the Wrong Authors
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…
AEOQuora Sucks: How the Smartest Room on the Internet Became an AI Answer Farm
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 WritingFacebook Writing Groups Suck: Where Writers Go to Get Torn Apart
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 WritingWhat Pain Are You Solving? Guests, Free Advice and the Socratic Method | The Impossible Puzzles Show, Episode 248
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 WritingOpenAI Is Still Counting What Its Rogue AI Agents Did
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.