I’ve been participating in the annual 30-day novel writing event called NaNoWriMo (and its 2025 successor, Novel November) since 2017. That first year, I opened Scrivener, started typing the first chapter to the novel I’d been dreaming about each time I’d pass a...

Everyone loves a good shortcut. Running late for work and you’ve just hit a traffic jam? Honk your horn and drive on the sidewalk. You have thirty minutes for a lunch break and the bridge to your favorite café across the river is twenty miles away, go swimming. You’re...

Note: This article was written on September 21, 2024, but I'm just now getting around to publishing it. All time references should be considered for then. About a week ago, I was watching Matt Wolfe’s latest AI News Update on YouTube to catch up on the latest in AI...

Two years ago, in my article “The Pros and Cons (and Ethics) of Using AI Content Tools for Writing,” I opined on the future of generative AI for writers and discussed how writers might use it ethically, if they should use it at all. At the time, tools like Jasper AI...