The tools, platforms, and tech behind the writing life. Backups, security, software, and the digital habits that keep your work safe and your process sane. Practical advice from decades of writing on computers, not theory.
NonfictionA chapter is as long as one complete thought, and a thousand words is plenty when the thought is finished. Keep with next and real heading styles stop a manuscript from fighting you through every revision.
AI AdoptionWhen a commercial tool annoys me, I build my own with Claude. My booking system took 44 versions and one bug silently threw away bookings, and the habits I learned from it apply to any writer or small business owner.
CybersecurityCloudflare's free plan runs a writer's website well for nothing. I started free, it worked, and then I bought pieces as I needed them. The free tier covers more than most writers need, and the pricing models to fear are…
Digital TransformationI'll start on the code before I even have a strategy, and it has cost me rework I hate. These days I go bottom-up and top-down at the same time, on software and on books.
AI AdoptionSecret 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.
AIAnthropic 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…
Digital TransformationThe Tomatometer is not a rating. It is the percentage of critics who gave a film a passing grade, so a film everybody finds mediocre can score 94% while one people love scores 60%. Almost every complaint about the site…
Answer Engine OptimizationA client told me he had asked Perplexity for a ghostwriter and my name came back. Then it happened again with a different engine. That is why this book exists.
Digital TransformationA specific kind of softness had developed in my own work and in the work of writers and programmers I know. Not laziness. Not incompetence. A softness in the instrument itself.
Digital TransformationA hard constraint will hand you a solution you would never have picked from a list of options, and the solution is often better than what you would have chosen freely. We had a floor tile buckling under a live…
Disaster RecoveryWhen a vendor has been working on your problem for a week without a theory, that is your signal to bring in somebody else. One firm spent a week on a slowdown that had stopped our business. A second firm…
Digital TransformationIf you cannot fill a technical role, the problem may not be your pay or your posting. I went looking for database administrators in the United States and nobody applied, which surprised me at the time.
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