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LLMs Are Revealing How Low the Bar Is (And Lowering It Even Further)

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Scavenging in the Media Wastelands: Or, Substacking While Trying to Make a Living Writing

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On Making Money (Or Not) Writing

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Why BookScan Is Different from Book Sales (Which Are Different from Royalty Statements)

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The Principles of Plotting Part Two: Oscillation

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I Loved this Novel About Digging Up Frozen Soldiers in 19th-Century Prussia and You Might Too

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What Memoir Scandals Tell Us about Two LLM Writing Scandals

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Interview: How Naomi Huffman and Julia Ringo Run Hagfish

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What It Means that Hachette Just Canceled an AI Novel

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MFA vs. Publishing Round 2,000

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Processing: How Andrew Martin Wrote Down Time

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The View from Inside: On Adding Interiority to Your Fiction

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What Not Reading Does to Your Writing

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Surf's Up in Slop City

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Why Literature Needs a Punk Rock Mindset

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Why "Plot" Isn't a Four-Letter Word

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Don't Draft Shakespeare into Your Genre Wars

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Why You Should Read Gene Wolfe (and Where to Start)

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Thoughts on Publishing a Novel in 2025

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Processing: How Brandon Taylor Wrote Minor Black Figures

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