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“ChatGPT User Delighted to Combine Sloth with Theft”

“Actual writing takes time away from surfing for deepfake porn,” explains Wolverton.

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“I Use ChatGPT for Ideas and Inspiration” Is the New “I Read the Playboy for the Articles”

Banking on garbage and stolen goods, what could go wrong?

The Future Starts Here

LLM Support for “Clarity” in Creative and Scholarly Writing

A brief look at “AI enhanced” spell and grammar checkers that promise to “clarify” your text.

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Ludotronics: Coming Soon to a Bookstore Near You!

Long ago in 2019—some of yer olden folks might still remember—I published my book on game design methodologies.

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Editing Characters

“The Indecisive Novelist’s Characters”: Tom Gauld seems determined to draw brilliant cartoons that perfectly illustrate major topics from each of my categories.

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My Doctoral Thesis Template, or: How You Learn to Stop Worrying and Love OpenOffice.org

Two years late but here it is: my OpenOffice.org thesis template, up for grabs under a Creative Commons license.

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Textual Transparency, With Birds

After that awful, controversial German Spelling Reform, some of your readers will continuously be aware of your spelling, no matter which rules you choose.

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Dashes and Ellipses (American Style)

To consistently differentiate between pauses (ellipses) & interruptions (em dashes) is not only good orthographic behavior, but also increases narrative options.

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The Importance of Being One’s Editor

In times when more and more publishers don’t focus on professional editing anymore when it comes to publishing a book, it’s you who should be alarmed.