What’s New at The Writing King
September 20 to September 26. 9 new pieces this week: 7 articles, 1 press release and 1 movie review.
Articles 7Press Releases 1Movie Reviews 1
Featured this week
Sep 26 · Artificial Intelligence, Society
Post an AI Image and Unfriend Me
This week, an AI ultimatum in my feed, the reasonable point hiding under it, and how posts like it prime the next pile-on.
Sep 26 · Artificial Intelligence, Publishing
She Asked How to Publish Her Bedtime Story. They Called Her a Thief.
This week, a mother's simple question about AI illustrations on KDP turned into a pile-on, and the answers she needed got buried.
Sep 26 · Artificial Intelligence, Business
The AI Hype Cycle: Why the Crash Is Coming, and Who’s Causing It
This week, the AI hype cycle: why $725 billion in AI spending looks like every bubble before it, and why the crash could be worse than it has to be.
Articles
Sep 25 · Artificial Intelligence, Business
Six Claude Prompts That Get You Unstuck, and Why the Order Matters
This week, six Claude prompts that get you unstuck on a real problem, and why they only work when you run them in order in one conversation.
Sep 25 · Artificial Intelligence, Society
Dogpiled Over AI Art at the Renaissance Faire
This week, a Renaissance faire fan group dogpiled a man over AI tribute images, and why he broke the rule but didn't deserve the beating.
Sep 23 · Artificial Intelligence, Technology
Claude Opus 5.5: What the New Release Means for Writers
This week, Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5, and the parts that matter to writers are buried under the coding benchmarks.
Sep 22 · Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity
Trump’s AI Force Is a Fire Department With No Fire Code
This week, why Trump's newly announced AI Force is a fire department with no fire code, and what a real AI fire code would require.
Press Releases
The Writing King Publishes a Free 17-Chapter Guide to Hiring a Ghostwriter
This week, the free Ghostwriting Hub: a 17-chapter guide to what a ghostwriter costs, who owns the book, and what goes wrong.
Movie Reviews
8.5/10Sep 22
Richard Lowe reviews Hotel (1967) and rates it 8.5 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Rod Taylor runs a grand, struggling New Orleans hotel through one week of takeover threats, a jewel thief and a duke and duchess hiding a hit-and-run, in a glossy adaptation of Arthur Hailey's novel that opens with a superb single shot across the hotel floor.