Put your work online long enough and someone will come for it. These posts cover internet trolls, review bombing, online harassment, and handling a brutal review with your sanity and reputation intact.
AIOctober 2, 2026
An author asked whether an AI cover makes an AI book, and the thread decided the whole book must be stolen. What AI Derangement Syndrome is, what readers think, and why the only question that matters is whether the book…
AIOctober 1, 2026
An author asked how to turn her comic series into a KDP paperback because ChatGPT kept changing her pictures. The thread went to war over AI. Here's the answer she needed.
Critique GroupsOctober 1, 2026
You'd think writers would be kind to each other. Writing groups are some of the cruelest rooms online. Why rejection, fear and status drive it, why the polite groups don't help either, and what a good group looks like.
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…
AISeptember 29, 2026
Someone in a self-publishing group asked why anyone cares if other people use AI to write books. Under the insults were three answers that hold up, several that don't, and a writer who quit because everyone assumed his books were…
AISeptember 29, 2026
The Times Literary Supplement removed an essay about AI and the crisis of the author because AI was used in writing it. The magazine enforced its rule in four sentences. The crowd on Facebook went after the man by name.
AISeptember 27, 2026
A writing group member asked how much AI is too much and labeled it rage bait. I sorted all 83 answers. The two camps drew the same line and fought anyway.
AISeptember 26, 2026
A post told everyone who shares AI-generated images to unfriend the author and skip the argument. His real point was reasonable. The ultimatum turned it into a dare.
AISeptember 26, 2026
A mother asked a self-publishing group how to publish the bedtime story she wrote for her daughter with AI illustrations. The thread called her gross, a thief and a bad writer, and buried the answers she needed.
AISeptember 25, 2026
A longtime fan posted AI-generated tribute images to a Texas Renaissance Festival group, and more than a hundred people dogpiled him. He broke the group's unwritten rule, and the community has good reasons for it. None of that earned him…
MarketingAugust 13, 2026
Internet trolls exist to provoke and disrupt, not communicate. Here is what attracts them, how they operate, and why you cannot win by engaging.
Critical ThinkingJune 12, 2026
Trolls do not choose targets at random; they go where the reaction is, and certain online behaviors light them up like a beacon, from sharing personal stories to correcting people to simply being visible. None of these are wrong. But…
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