Character DevelopmentFebruary 9, 2026
Both sides of the woke-writing fight miss the point: one insists progressive themes wreck stories, the other insists on them, and neither is talking about craft. Themes do not ruin a book. Weak writing does. Here is how to fold…
AI OverrelianceFebruary 9, 2026
AI does not think. It predicts, ChatGPT finishing your sentence, YouTube queuing the next video, all of it guessing from what you already liked. The better it learns you, the more it serves you back to yourself, and an AI…
Fiction WritingFebruary 9, 2026
You wake and the world has quietly agreed on a lie that rewrites physics itself, your neighbor calls the eastern sunrise a western one and means it. From Semmelweis dying in an asylum to Cassandra screaming at the gates of…
AI vs Human GhostwritingFebruary 9, 2026
Plenty of ghostwriters use AI; that is not the issue. The real questions are whether they are honest about how they work, whether they protect your voice, and whether the pages were authored or just assembled. Put real money into…
BiasFebruary 9, 2026
Education should stretch your thinking and confront you with ideas that challenge you, and sometimes it does. Sometimes it just trains you to say the right things, quote the right sources, and nod on cue, obedience with a diploma. Here…
BiasFebruary 9, 2026
This is about reasoning, not partisanship. A widely shared op-ed by a Democratic strategist makes for a clean case study, confident, persuasive on the surface, and built on a stack of logical fallacies and cognitive bias. Picking it apart teaches…
Fiction WritingFebruary 9, 2026
The hero is cornered, the tension is real, and then a solution drops from nowhere and the problem simply vanishes. That is deus ex machina, and it quietly betrays every reader who was invested. Here is what it is, why…
AI vs Human GhostwritingFebruary 9, 2026
After 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…
MemoirFebruary 9, 2026
Two months after my wife died, I stood in the most spectacular wildflower bloom in Joshua Tree's recorded history, 45, newly widowed, and lost. I could have reached for medication or given up in a chair. Instead the desert my…
Pop Culture & Storytelling LessonsFebruary 9, 2026
Long 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…
MemoirFebruary 9, 2026
The 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;…
BiasFebruary 9, 2026
Nobody joins a cult; they join a group that promises something beautiful, and the cult part arrives later, after the doors lock. Cults recruit not with warning labels but with answers, belonging, purpose, love, right when you need them. A…
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