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How to Outpace AI - Or at least enjoy trying
AI is already replacing some human writers, but could you keep enhancing your original style to keep ahead of AI's attempts to imitate you? More
How Research Makes Meaning
Used skillfully, information from experts, references, and archives can create a bridge between events and what those events mean. More
Writing about a changing place
In this post for the Brevity Blog, I suggest approaches and offer prompts for writing about the world around us. More
How and Why to Write Parties
How depicting large gatherings in your fiction or nonfiction can illuminate character, advance plot, and enhance setting. More
Giving and Receiving Feedback
How to make the most of critiquing others' writing and getting your writing critiqued. More
Keys to Keeping On
How to urge yourself forward when writing feels hard, slow, and possibly pointless. More
How to Manage the Middle
How to transform a story's middle from monotonous to magical. More
How to Write Less
How to improve your writing through judicious--or even ruthless--cutting. More
On Endings
Ideas about creating satisfying endings for your stories, essays, memoirs, or novels. More
A Guide to Greatness
If you can recognize great writing, you can create it. Thoughts on using a model text to improve our writing. More