This week let’s think about this bit that I pulled out of our March 2025 Fantasy Author’s Handbook group read and the first book finished in my 100-Book Challenge, Thrill Me: Essays on Fiction by Benjamin Percy: Make a graph of your story or novel or essay or memoir. Step back and judge it as a whole. Pay attention to how you might balance the physical beats and the emotional beats rather than entangle them.

Banned words list 2025: The federal government is banning a growing number of words to comply with executive orders from President Trump.

"It all amounts to an increasingly Kafkaesque situation, where reading and talking about book bans and censorship is itself being censored."

Libraries exist to guarantee equal access to ideas; telling families to buy books themselves undermines equity, choice, trust, and opportunity.

Writers, actors and other musicians have come out in support of the Human Artistry Campaign’s “Stealing Isn’t Innovation” push for licensing and opt-out mechanisms for human-created works.

The famed convention's organizers have banned AI from the art show.

Writing trends can be weird. They can come out of nowhere and come and go so fast most people don’t even see them happening. The English language, maybe even more so than any other language on Earth, is an ever-evolving, living thing. That said—that understood—I don’t spend too much time wringing my hands over neologisms and alterations or additions to accepted usage—especially since “accepted” implies there’s someone in charge to either accept or reject things like the singular 

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A "few senior managers" are testing the tech but remain unexcited, says CEO