What It Means to Write
In the previous post, I talked about what it takes to write, and a brief recap would bring…
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I Trained an AI on My Writing for a Year. Here’s What It Stole.
A working writer's first-person account of feeding a year of essays into an AI model, watching it learn…
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From ACOTAR to Fourth Wing to Crescent City, the romantasy boom runs on the same three structural tropes.…
Read moreWhy Every Creative Person Feels Slightly Obsolete Right Now
An essay on AI, creative labor, the cheap-shiny replacement of taste, and why the human residue is what…
Read moreEverything Beautiful Is Becoming Content
The word "content" used to mean the stuff inside a container. Now it names the thing itself. A…
Read moreEvery Writer I Fall For Is An INTP And I’m Starting To Think That’s A Warning
Thirteen INTP writers, what I actually read them for, and what the pattern in my bookshelf is trying…
Read moreDoes Weed Make You More Creative, or Just More Interested in Your Own Ideas
The real answer is worse than the hype and better than the backlash. A working designer on what…
Read moreThe Capricorn Playbook for Finishing What You Start
Why Capricorns outproduce every other sign in art and writing, and what the rest of us can steal…
Read moreWhat a Font Feels Like – A Field Guide to Typographic Dishonesty
Fonts have personalities. Some of them are lying to you. A working designer's short field guide to the…
Read moreADHD Creatives and the Lie About Finishing Things
The common story is that ADHD brains can't finish. The historical record says different. Ten real creatives, what…
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