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An alleged SEO expert emailed me. This is what followed.

November 4, 2023June 4, 2026

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The descriptive powers of the great John Houseman.

September 27, 2023June 4, 2026

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The A.I. bot says: “Get out of the chair. Go have a drink. I’ll do the writing.”

July 24, 2023June 4, 2026

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The U.S. editor-in-chief of TechRadar.com tries to get ChatGPT to write a screenplay.

June 9, 2023June 4, 2026

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“And no one can talk to a horse of course.” Wrong!

May 18, 2023June 4, 2026

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The last of the three-dot journalists.

April 21, 2023June 4, 2026

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Unmarked graves out past Terlingua

April 6, 2023June 4, 2026

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Words + emotion + lies = propaganda. Meet Joseph Goebbels.

February 26, 2023June 4, 2026

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What the boss does for fun. Buckle up. Yee-haw!

January 20, 2023June 4, 2026

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This is really what it’s like to be an editor.

December 30, 2022June 4, 2026

I came across this comical image while searching for a photo to illustrate our new page on editing and proofreading services. It Read More...

If you have an idea that you genuinely think is good, don’t let some idiot talk you out of it.

Stan Lee

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Oscar Wilde

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Arthur Balfour

The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

George Bernard Shaw

If you haven’t got an idea, start a story anyway. You can always throw it away, and maybe by the time you get to the fourth page you will have an idea, and you’ll only have to throw away the first three pages.

William C. Gault

Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

E. L. Doctorow

Thank your readers and the critics who praise you, and then ignore them. Write for the most intelligent, wittiest, wisest audience in the universe: Write to please yourself.

Harlan Ellison

Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.

Matthew Arnold

A writer is a world trapped in a person.

Victor Hugo

Substitute “damn” every time you’re inclined to write “very”; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

Mark Twain

My aim is to put down what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way I can tell it.

Ernest Hemingway

You may be able to take a break from writing, but you won’t be able to take a break from being a writer.

Stephen Leigh

Socially, a journalist fits in somewhere between a whore and a bartender. But spiritually he stands beside Galileo. He knows the world is round.

Sherman Reilly Duffy

I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.

Tom Clancy

It is perfectly okay to write garbage — as long as you edit brilliantly.

C. J. Cherryh

Keep a small can of WD-40 on your desk — away from any open flames — to remind yourself that if you don’t write daily, you will get rusty.

George Singleton

There are three primal urges in human beings: Food, sex, and rewriting someone else’s play.

Romulus Linney

I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop.

Clarence Budington Kelland

If you wait for inspiration to write, you’re not a writer. You’re a waiter.

Dan Poynter

Plot is, I think, the good writer’s last resort and the dullard’s first choice.