It's raining in Los Angeles today, and I'm thinking about how once, I slammed my fingers in a car door by accident and had to wear an aluminum finger splint for a few weeks while it recovered. I called it my claw. Hands, and claws, with
The natural world is a wellspring of inspiration for how we can structure our writing. One book on this comes to mind immediately: Meander, Spiral, Explode. This craft book by Jane Alison looks at designs and patterns in writing that can be found in nature: fractals, wavelets, cells. I'
There's no need for me to tell you that artificial intelligence is reshaping the way people write. The internet is flooded with its synthetic prose. Its patterns can even seep into our own writing, if we're not paying attention. Large language models (I'll just
