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Once there were brook trout in the streamsOnce there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their...
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Trust me, you can’t change anything without causing some degree of disruptionTrust me, you can’t change anything without causing some degree of disruption. It’s impossible, that is exactly what change is. Some...
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PEN Union Cries Foul in Contract Talks as Criticism of PEN America IntensifiesFrom Publishers Weekly: A proposal floated during ongoing contract negotiations between management at the freedom of expression nonprofit PEN...
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Wise Words: Quotes to Help the WriterFrom Women Writers, Women’s Books: For me, one of the hardest parts of the writing life is the fact that one does it on one’s own. I...
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Ian FlemingFrom The Wall Street Journal: From the first arresting moment in Nicholas Shakespeare’s biography “ Ian Fleming: The Complete Man ” it is...
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Video will kill the truth if monitoring doesn’t improve, argue two researchersFrom The Economist: Generative artificial intelligence (ai) is rewriting the disinformation playbook. There is no better place to study this...
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If an elderly but distinguished scientist saysIf an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible,...
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Understanding humanoid robotsFrom TechCrunch: Robots made their stage debut the day after New Year’s 1921. More than half-a-century before the world caught its first...
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More doctors use ChatGPT to help with busy workloads, but is AI a reliable assistant?From Fox News: Dr. AI will see you now. It might not be that far from the truth, as more and more physicians are turning to artificial...
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In Defense of ImaginationFrom Public Books: In his short story “The Paper Menagerie,” Ken Liu makes a case for imagination’s value: for its innate significance and...
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In the most secret heart of every intellectualIn the most secret heart of every intellectual … there lies hidden … the hope of power, the desire to bring his ideas to reality by imposing...
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Write Like a ManFrom The Wall Street Journal: Many years ago, at a dinner party attended by some of the ex-radicals turned Cold Warriors known as the New...
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Gun violence killed them. Now, their voices will lobby Congress to do more using AIFrom National Public Radio “It’s been six years, and you’ve done nothing,” Joaquin Oliver’s voice echoed across...
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Perplexity Talks About Self-PublishingPG spent a little time with Perplexity an AI writing assistant. You can decide how useful it was. He used the free version, which he found to...
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A Love That Endured Life’s March MadnessFrom The Wall Street Journal: In 1956 the Ohio State University basketball team moved out of the drafty old Ohio Fairgrounds Coliseum and...
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How to Write a Book Right NowFrom Vulture: What I really liked about reading this book was — well, my writing advice is like yours. You have to write a lot . Sure, be...
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Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, preciousEvery one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will...
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The Wound of Individuality and the Literary ExperienceFrom The Center for Lit: I was recently troubled by a conversation that occurred in a book club meeting I attend. We’d read The Five Wounds...
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Good DiscussionPG notes that there’s a good discussion happening in the comments to an earlier post – Resistance is Futile.
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Emotion and the Art of NegotiationFrom The Harvard Business Review: Summary. Negotiations can be fraught with emotion, but it’s only recently that...
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From Lead to Gold: The Alchemy of Character Arc With Carl JungFrom Helping Writers Become Authors: Storytelling is a mystical crucible. Just as the ancient alchemists sought the transformation of base...
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Book Publishing Contracts – Checklist of Deal TermsFrom Morse: The path to publication generally requires authors to sign a “publishing contract” that covers such topics as: manuscript...
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A new book rebukes the “luxury beliefs” of America’s upper classFrom The Economist: While applying to Yale University (pictured) in 2014, Rob Henderson visited New Haven for the first time. He stayed with...
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These changes to his way of experiencing reality were so strangeThese changes to his way of experiencing reality were so strange that he didn’t say anything about them at first. All he knew was he was...
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Romantasy, AI and Palestinian voices: publishing trends emerge at London book fairFrom The Guardian: P alestine, artificial intelligence and romantasy were high on the agenda at this week’s London book fair. More than...
