Writers Steven Levenson & Danielle Sanchez-Witzel Interview: Up Here
Now available to stream on Hulu, Up Here is a love song for anyone who’s ever let the mistakes of the past dictate their future. The romantic comedy takes place in New York City and uses original music to symbolize the unrelenting thoughts circulating in an individual’s head. After spending their lives failing to drown […]
How is AI Changing the Way We Write and Create?
Research and Innovation Since late last year, artificial intelligence platforms like ChatGPT have become a growing topic of conversation on college campuses, with students using the technology for everything from class assignments to essays. These text-generating software programs sift through massive databases to generate human-like responses to prompts or questions from users. The rapid introduction […]
Love, Absence and Loss, Filtered Through Philosophical Poems
In Brenda Shaughnessy’s collection “Tanya,” the self is fluid and love is “timelessness itself.” Credit…Gina Guasch Team TANYA: Poems, by Brenda Shaughnessy Attempt to ferret out the origins of the name “Tanya,” and you’ll find yourself awash in contradiction. A Russian name, it’s a diminutive of “Tatiana,” one source declares. Another insists the name is […]
Authors of different genres react to the AI threat.
Firstly, I promise this is not one of those articles that begins with “I put a prompt into ChatGPT and this is what it generated.” This post is written 100% by me, a tired lady with an itchy head who is on her second coffee of the new day. It will cover the question of […]
Writing About Adolescence: What’s the Story?
Adolescence is the toughest half of growing up–separating from childhood, detaching for independence, and differentiating for individuality. Adolescence requires that parents adjust expectations as the child becomes somewhat less close, less communicative, and less readily compliant. Having realistic expectations about common adolescent changes and common changes in their relationship with their teenager can be helpful. […]
10 Rules to Make Your Writing so Persuasive People Can’t Ignore It
All good writing is persuasive by definition. Think about it. Would you read something that’s not enticing? With the millions of ways we can keep ourselves busy in today’s world, I certainly won’t. I only read something when it’s so persuasive I can’t ignore it. And as a writer, my goal is to produce the […]