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A Letter to the Younger Writer

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…

Dialogue That Breathes

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…

Keeping the Human Touch in an AI World

Why Small Businesses Need Human-Guided AI Implementation The notification pings on Justine’s phone for the hundredth time today. Another AI tool promising to “revolutionise” her marketing, another guru claiming AI…

The Victorian Machine

How We Reinvented Control and Called It Progress The sound still echoes in my memory, the sharp crack of a long wooden pole being battered against metal bedframes at 5:30…