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A short user guide-diving game. Play on itch.io.

The Pause: Let’s define that one filler dialogue choice format

"How are you feeling? You took a nasty fall back there." 1. Not great. 2. Ow! My head! 3. Where am I? Seen one of those? That's The Pause. A narrative design verb that's usually bad that I've been forced to acknowledge can have value.

‘AI’ for Professional Writers: Navigating the Circus Part 2

PART ONE THE PRODUCT PROBLEM WHAT’S THE WORD ON THE STREET? IN CONCLUSION And we’re back. In Part One, we looked at the basic technology underneath modern “artificial intelligence,” along with possible use cases professional writers see across industries. This also lengthy part (sorry, there’s a lot out there!) will explore the business of AI, as well as my favorite developments in the public eye. Even in the short time since I put out the first part of this essay, so much has happened in the space. The big elephant in the attic now is Deepseek’s r1 reasoning model, which not only performs [...]

‘AI’ for Professional Writers: Navigating the Circus Part 1

INTRO WHY IT’S CONFUSING (AND DEPRESSING) OUT THERE WHY YOU SHOULD LISTEN TO ME HOW THIS STUFF ACTUALLY WORKS HOW WRITERS USE THIS STUFF PART TWO INTRO Here we are in what promises to be a fun, sunshine-y 2025, with years now of the current generation of AI technology out in the market. We’ve been inundated with hype at a scale seemingly greater than the last five tech industry hype waves combined. We’ve been told all sorts of great-sounding lines about how revolutionary and inevitable this technology is, especially for creative endeavors like writing. I don’t know about you, but it’s been difficult [...]