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NaNoWriMo Basic Template (2026 Edition): A Journey Through Time and Drama

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...

The Long Shortcut: When the Easy Writing Is as Complicated as the Hard Writing

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...

The McCray Parables: The Fountain of Truth Is Released

I’ve been teasing it on my newsletter throughout the year and rarely mentioned it here on my site, but today is the day that you can finally get your copy of The McCray Parables: The Fountain of Truth in e-book and paperback formats, with hardcover and dust jacket...

Converting Books and Articles into Podcasts: A Look at Google’s NotebookLM

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...