Should You Write “to the Market”?
Knowing what you want in this business is one of the most important factors in creating a writing career that…
Writing Career
How to Talk to Anyone about Your Writing (or Anything)
Whether it’s at writing events with other authors, or you’re pitching your work to agents and editors, or talking about…
When the World Sucks Your Creativity: Zoom In and Zoom Out
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Protect Yourself from the Latest AI Writer Scams
“Why is it every time a new thing is invented humans immediately try to use it for porn?” That’s a…
Leave Room for the Happy Accidents
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What to Consider in Using AI for Your Writing
Given what we know about how easily modern tech tools can creep into taking over an outsize place in our…
Reclaiming Your Time
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Doing What You Have to Do
How much of our lives do we regard as items on our to-do list? We often speak of obligations, responsibilities,…
Can AI Edit Your Book?
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You Have to Make Choices and They All Have a Cost
As creatives we are constantly facing choices—many of them in our art blessedly malleable, at least until we’ve published our…