Tag: writing
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Writers and Scams in the Era of AI
(My first-ever AI-generated image, courtesy of Gemini 3. Why do all these AI tech products sound like space missions, or satellites? The image shows a robot typing a manuscript, which was my prompt. Rather worryingly accurate.) If I were to launch a profitable and efficient scam, which is beyond both my capacity and my interests,…
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“We Can’t Ask Alice”: Our Munro Roundtable at MLA 2026 in Toronto
Huge thanks to Sarah Caskey, Nadine Fladd, and Julie Rivkin for their wonderfully thoughtful and engaging presentations. This was a tricky session for me, and I appreciated the guidance of Munro scholars–notably Maggie Redekop and Naomi Morgenstern, during the planning stage–as well as Lorraine York, whose work on Atwood and celebrity helped shape Nadine Fladd’s…
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Books on Writing: Setting Writing Goals, Developing Better Habits, and Giving up on Perfection
A break from crime fiction today to talk about writing goals. I tend to do better with five- or ten-year goals than with New Year’s resolutions. A year is a brief period of time in which to accomplish anything of note, but it is a decent time-frame for changing habits. And that’s what I did…
