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I took my grandmother to the emergency roomI took my grandmother to the emergency room. The doctor said that she was on an artificial life support system, and that although her brain was...
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How To Design For Local BookstoresFrom The Book Designer: If you love books and work as a freelancer, you may want to learn how to design for local bookstores. Graphic design,...
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Virginia Woolf’s Forgotten DiaryFrom The Paris Review: On August 3, 1917, Virginia Woolf wrote in her diary for the first time in two years—a small notebook, roughly the...
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Dominant languages can spread even without coercionFrom The Economist: N ever think the world is in decline. A recent book, “Speak Not” by James Griffiths, looks at the bad old days when...
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An AI Cease-and-Desist LetterPG decided to ask ChatGPT to write a cease-and-desist letter to someone who is stealing PG’s writing and selling it as his own, a fanciful...
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An Experiment with ChatGPTWrite the first paragraph for a children’s book that includes a little girl, a unicorn and a lazy wolf. Once upon a time in the...
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How to create a song for Eurovision with AIFrom BusinessInsider: A song for Eurovision Insider’s Chloe Pantazi was underwhelmed by this year’s Eurovision song contest....
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Vitality Rages Against the MachineFrom The Wall Street Journal: “All history is the history of longing,” Jackson Lears has written. In four major works, ranging across...
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Proper NamesProper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable. W. H. Auden
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If Not Big Names, Then What?From Kristine Kathryn Rusch: I opened a can of worms in my own head when I wrote last week’s blog which I titled “Stars.” The post deals with...
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The Young Heroes of the Writing WorldFrom Publisher’s Weekly: Publishers, writers, and readers know today’s contradictions. As an organized right-wing campaign surges...
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Black Women Are Being Erased in Book PublishingFrom Electric Lit: Obsessively scratching her scalp, while simultaneously chiding herself not to, Kendra Rae Phillips sits on a MetroNorth...
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Obsession: Is It a Key Ingredient to a Story’s Success?From Writer Unboxed: To frame today’s subject matter, let me first give you a little background about me: I’ve been making my living as a...
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What Is Juneteenth? And How Did It Become a Federal Holiday?For visitors from outside of the United States, today is a new national holiday, Jueteenth. From The Wall Street Journal: Juneteenth is...
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It’s none of their businessIt’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way. Ernest Hemingway
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Tone in Writing: 42 Examples of Tone For All Types of WritingFrom The Write Practice: What is tone in writing and why does it matter? Tone is key to all communication. Think of the mother telling...
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Two literary legends pass awayFrom Nathan Bransford: The publishing world lost two luminaries this week. Cormac McCarthy, author of All the Pretty Horses, No Country for...
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The eastern half of Europe is united by its diversityFrom The Economist: For most of the past three decades, the received view of eastern Europe, defined roughly as the territory between...
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“Power and Progress” Technology and the New LeviathanFrom The Wall Street Journal: Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson have written a long, eloquent book arguing that technological...
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They said I was splitting hairsThey said I was splitting hairs and losing my objectivity. I reminded them that I was a postmodernist who didn’t believe in objectivity....
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AI Makers Guaranteeing That Your Generative AI Output Is Safe From Copyright Exposures Might Be A Lot Less Filling Than You Think, Says AI Ethics And AI LawFrom Forbes: Violating someone’s copyrighted content can be quite costly. Whether you realize it or not, those popular generative AI...
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The Toughest Fish in the BarrelFrom Electric Lit: Sunrise Foods, just a few blocks from my house, is marked by a glossy freestanding sign, a cheery egg-yolk yellow against...
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Microsoft’s Satya Nadella Is Betting Everything on AIFrom Wired: I NEVER THOUGHT I’d write these words, but here goes. Satya Nadella—and Microsoft, the company he runs—are riding high on...
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Paul McCartney Uses AI to Create the Final Beatles SongFrom CNet: All you need is love, but artificial intelligence can sometimes help too. Paul McCartney used AI to extract the late John...
