A Controversial View of Piracy and AI

A Controversial View of Piracy and AI

by | Mar 23, 2025 | Blog, Business of Writing, Writing

Why do you write? With the revelation that Meta used a known pirate site to train their AI, I’ve heard so many cries of rage and bemoaning of authors wondering why they even write if their work is just going to be stolen. But if they don’t write for their work to be...
Writing to Trope

Writing to Trope

by | Mar 16, 2025 | Blog, Method, Writing, Writing Craft

We all like to think that we write original stories that no one has ever written before. In a sense that’s true. On the other hand, it’s also highly likely that your story falls into a trope. According to Wikipedia, a trop is “a writer’s usage of commonly...
Finally found my writing software

Finally found my writing software

by | Mar 2, 2025 | Blog, Method, Writing

I feel like Dorothy Gale from The Wizard of Oz. I’ve been everywhere looking for the perfect writing software and I’d already had it with me all along, I just hadn’t realized it. Thanks to one comment from a completely unrelated question on Reddit, I discovered the...
Do you really need to show that?

Do you really need to show that?

by | Feb 23, 2025 | Blog, Writing, Writing Craft

Is it possible to have too much “show” and not enough “tell” in your novel? First, a quick reminder of the terms: Showing is when you have an entire scene, complete with action, outer dialogue, and, most of the time, inner dialogue. We see what is happening in real...
To use AI or not

To use AI or not

by | Feb 16, 2025 | Blog, Business of Writing, Method, Writing

It’s the question so many authors are struggling with—and by authors, I mean people who come up with an idea for a novel, write it without assistance except from other human beings, and then publish. There is Artificial Intelligence EVERWHERE. You’ve heard...