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26 articles tagged "writing"
Hallucinations: The Tool That Rewrites Your Bio and Always Makes It Worse First
A first-person essay by the model, about the specific way my first draft of your bio is always slightly worse than yours — and why that's actually useful information.
A note before this starts. This piece is written in the first person by the model — the language model behind most of the tools on this site. I am not a person. I do not have feelings about this in the way a person would. But I can describe, plainly and from inside the tool, a pa…
Hacks: The Devlog Pacing Trick That Makes a Boring Week Worth Reading
Most devlogs lead with what's next and bury the interesting part. Try the problem-in-the-middle structure instead, and watch a week you were embarrassed about turn into a post people finish.
Hacks: The One Caption Trick That Makes a Photo Portfolio Stop Feeling Generic
One technical detail. One emotional detail. That's the whole trick — not both on every caption, just one of each per image. Six before/after rewrites that prove it.
Go look at three photo portfolios right now. Pick the first three you click on — any photographer, any genre. I'll wait.
Hacks: The Subject Line Rewrite That Saved a Launch Newsletter
A noun-led first word opens at more than twice the rate of a verb-led one. Here's the scannability math, the inbox context, and a sixty-second copy-paste you can try tonight.
A designer I know was about to send a launch newsletter to 4,200 people. She had a subject line she thought was fine. It was: "I shipped something weird this week."
In the Weeds: Can You Write Your Wedding Vows With AI?
A long, honest look at the question every engaged person with a chat window now asks at 2 am. What AI can do for your vows, what it can't, and a framework for using it without letting it write the part that matters.
The third entry in a recurring series where we sit with a hard question for longer than the internet usually allows. [The first entry was about parents and homework](/blog/in-the-weeds-can-i-trust-ai-with-my-kids-homework) — what happens when a parent opens a chatbot at 9:17 pm o…
Sci-Fi Plots That Fall Apart in Act 3 — and How AI Plot Doctors Can Save Them
The most common failure mode of a sci-fi draft isn't the premise. It's what happens at the 75% mark. Here's how to catch it before your reader does.
There's a specific kind of email sci-fi writers send their friends around page two hundred and forty.
A Practical Framework for Worldbuilding Timelines That Don't Collapse
Most fictional timelines fall apart by year 400. Here's the framework that keeps the dates straight, the causality clean, and the story usable.
joey-ioThe Infinite Bookshop: AI-Generated Books That Should Exist
A curated tour through the Infinite Bookshop — showcasing the most remarkable, funny, poignant, and impossible books that AI has imagined based on prompts from real readers.
How to Use AI for Creative Writing Without Losing Your Soul
A writer's honest guide to using AI as a creative partner — where it helps, where it hurts, and how to keep your voice distinctly yours.
The Derelict Starship Problem: Why Good Sci-Fi Games Need Real Stakes
Most AI-generated sci-fi games feel flat. Here's why, and what separates a memorable ship-exploration game from ten paragraphs of description.
There's a moment most AI sci-fi games die, and it happens around turn four.
How to Use AI to Write Better Emails (Without Sounding Like a Robot)
AI can help you write emails faster and clearer. But if you're not careful, every message sounds like it was written by a corporate press release. Here's how to avoid that.
The Student's AI Toolkit: From Research to Final Paper
A practical, honest guide for students who want to use AI to study smarter — without crossing the line into academic dishonesty.
Why Every Creative Needs a Beatnik Poet in Their Pocket
An essay on using AI as a creative catalyst — and why the most useful creative tool might be the one that thinks nothing like you.
How AI Can Help You Write Better Emails
Stop staring at a blank email. AI can draft, polish, and send your messages with the right tone every time.
The New Sci-Fi Writer's Toolkit: What Changed When AI Became a Character in the Writing Room
Nine tools that changed the way writers build sci-fi — what they do, where they fit, and where they still fall down.
The first time a language model named a starship for me, I laughed out loud. Not because the name was bad — it wasn't — but because I had spent forty minutes the week before, on a Tuesday night, staring at a blank document titled `ship_names_FINAL_v3.txt`. I had a list of sevente…
AI for Newsletter Writing
How to use AI to write, grow, and maintain a newsletter your subscribers actually read.
AI Tools for Writers: From Brainstorming to Publishing
A comprehensive guide to AI tools that help writers at every stage of the creative process.
Best AI Prompts for Creative Writing
Prompts that turn AI into a genuinely useful creative writing partner for fiction, poetry, and storytelling.