What if your reader knew exactly how you used AI to create the text? Would that risk your relationship with the reader?
Field Notes on Indexing
As a reader, I love a useful index. And because I try to practice servant authorship, I like to add indexes to my books.
Getting curious with open-ended questions
What if there was a magical incantation you could chant before writing that would help you achieve a flow state?
Writing to Fill Your Tank
If you believe that writing will be a difficult slog, you’re probably right. If you believe it will fill your tank, that might happen as well. Our expectations become prophecies.
Field Notes on Endnotes
How carefully do you look at the endnotes in the nonfiction books you read? I usually skip them—which makes it particularly cruel that they are such a pain to put together. Of course I want to cite my research. But how best to do that? The many flavors of endnotes Pull a few nonfiction books […]
Re-Humanizing Language
Human beings are abstraction-makers. We love using labels and categories to group things and make sense of the world. The ability to think and speak in abstractions makes modern civilization possible—and saves us time as well. But categories have a cost. When groups of people become an abstract category, they feel more distant, less human. […]