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…
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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…
Crafting Scene Atmosphere: Writing Settings That Carry Emotion
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…
Breaking: World Discovers Money Can Be Colors Other Than Green
Nations Shocked to Learn Currency Doesn’t Have to Feature Dead American Presidents Economic experts baffled as countries realise they can trade without pictures of George Washington GENEVA — In a…
2025: A World on the Edge of Recalibration?
The year ahead, what’s left of it, looks less like a calm crossing and more like steering through a storm. Global political instability, mounting economic pressures, and dizzying technological change…
Plotting & Outlining for the Human Writer
Anyone can sketch out a story with a beginning, middle, and end. Most writers have dozens of half-built outlines on their drives. The real challenge, however, is shaping a story…
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 Marketing Mind Trap: Why Your Brain Sabotages Your Success
(And How to Fight Back) It’s 9 AM on a Tuesday, and Sarah opens her laptop with the best of intentions. Today’s the day she’ll finally finish that email sequence…
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…
20. You Don’t Need More Time:
You Need a Better Way to Use It You’re not lazy. You’re not undisciplined. You’re not doing it wrong because you don’t wake up at 5 a.m. and crush a…