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A Writer’s Elegy

Writing is nearly dead, but Gen AI isn’t the reason. At least not fully. The death sentence for the written word was delivered with the invention of the cellphone screen.…

I Have a Landline

I can’t take selfies with it. Doesn’t have video. Can’t watch a movie. It doesn’t scroll. Or buy sneakers. No email, text, or Face Time. Doesn’t vibrate, buzz, or ping.…

Writer Quotes to Live By

I am a writer. And there comes a time when what I write has to belong to me. It has to be written alone and in silence, with no one…

Can’t Beat ‘Em, Join ‘Em

Gen AI is a title wave and, sooner or later, OG writers like me are going to be swept out to sea. Since it has already drowned just about everything…

Writers v. Robots (round two)

So I went over the list of 500,000 books eligible for the Anthropic lawsuit settlement and lo and behold and there it was: Death Need Not Be Fatal, the book…

There are No Boring Stories, Only Boring Storytellers. 

I once ghostwrote a book for a man who grew grass for a living, and not the kind you smoke.  I took the project reluctantly and only agreed because he…

How I Became a Ghostwriter (Final episode)

Just to finish up the “How I became a Ghostwriter” saga… So I’m learning as I go on social media. One thing’s for certain, I won’t post any slop. I’m…

Writers v. Robots Court battle

Last week, Anthropic, the parent company of Claude, agreed to pay authors and publishers $1.5 billion in damages for stealing their stuff. But the judge in the case said the…

To Tell the Truth

Fascinating expose in the Times today about the validity of the smash book The Tell by Amy Griffin. Griffin used Molly (MDMA) and ecstasy to unearth buried memories of systematic…