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Don’t Skip Your Apprenticeship
Let me return to a previous point I made in this blog series. Generative AI is about predicting language more than a...
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The Stylistic Tells
In our last post, we went through a sequence of mechanical writing devices that, when overused, tend to point towards AI use. I...
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The Mechanical Tells
When AI first came on the scene a few years ago, there was a lot of talk of who was going to be negatively impacted. I found m...
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The Elephant in the Room
Increasingly, it seems as though you can’t get out of bed in the morning without being confronted with various iterations ...
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Throughout the past year, I’ve been revising an old manuscript I wrote almost a decade ago. It’s a novel I was forced to abandon, despite still bei...
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Everyone, everywhere, speaks with an accent. It doesn’t matter what your first language is or where you grew up. When someone from a different plac...
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As an editor, I’m always working on ways to make prose more concise and effective. It’s typically true that if you can say something in eight words...
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We all love movies. Is there anything better than sitting in a theatre, waiting for the start of a film you’ve been anticipating for weeks, months,...
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There are few writers in the Christian world as revered as C.S. Lewis. Many readers discovered him young, through his Chronicles of Narnia novels, ...
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Since ChatGPT first started to take the world by storm about a year and a half ago, the writing community has been buzzing over how to grapple with...
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When working with a lot of relatively new authors, an editor tends to notice certain patterns begin to emerge over time. I’ve used this blog to tal...
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I’ve said before on this blog that you don’t know what you don’t know. This is a critical concept in editing. The reason writers need editors is be...
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