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Or: How the government decided to legislate intellectual courage into existence There’s something deliciously British about trying to solve a cultural problem with paperwork. This August, whilst most of us…
Part of the Writer Engagement and Growth series Let’s get one thing straight: not all pages on your site are created equal. Some are flimsy little blog posts that get…
Let’s be honest, most writers don’t start out thinking about traffic, clicks, funnels, or conversions. We start out chasing a sentence, a story, an idea that won’t leave us alone.…
How We’re All Losing Our Voices (And Our Minds) On free speech, moral panics, and the curious way we’ve convinced ourselves that silencing people makes us safer There’s something darkly…
Writers don’t just wrestle with blank pages; we wrestle with silence. The silence of blog posts nobody finishes, newsletters left unopened, stories that sink without a ripple. It’s rarely because…
Remember when “Dead Internet Theory” sounded like something cooked up by basement-dwelling conspiracy theorists with too much time and too little sunlight? When did the idea that most online content…
Trump’s Gaza Gambit and the World’s Collective Wince I’m watching Trump live on YouTube as I write this, and Christ, it’s like watching someone play Jenga with international law. The…
Let’s imagine we’re sitting across from each other at a small café table. You’ve got a notebook half-full of half-started ideas, and you’re looking at me the way I once…
A Writer’s Guide to Voices, Silences, and Subtext Dialogue falls apart fast when it sounds like writing. That’s when the reader starts skimming. The characters all talk the same. They…
Scene writing can fall apart when the setting disappears. You can have sharp dialogue, tight action, emotional stakes, but if the world around your character is vague or forgettable, the…