The efficiency you want from generative AI lives on the far side of the effort to play to its strengths and understand its vulnerabilities. #generativeAI #linkedin #writing #writingcommunity

Don’t forget to read or write something just for the hell of it. #writing #writingcommunity

"Living is the trick. Writers who write interestingly tend to be men and women who keep themselves interested." – William Zinsser, "On Writing Well” #writing #writingcommunity

One of our most popular virtual events this year was on life and career after journalism. Because even if you step away from the industry, we still care about your success! This was a lovely way for journalists to help one another. www.featuresjournalism.org/blog/2024/li...

Don't forget, #writing friends: The loudest lie you'll hear in your head as you read other writers’ work is that they knew exactly what and how they were going to write it from the start. They didn't. #writingcommunity

Effective writing is equal parts what you put in and what you take out. #writing #storytelling #writingcommunity

“Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.” - @stephenking.bsky.social in “On Writing” I have yet to find—or write—a more concise, comprehensive statement about the writing process. #writingcommunity #writing

The flag-draped casket of former President Jimmy Carter began its final journey on Saturday. It will travel to his hometown of Plains, Ga. on his way to the Carter Presidential Center in Atlanta, with a stop a the Georgia State Capitol along the way. wapo.st/3PIpfX7

“Every sentence should be tested on the tongue, to make sure that the sound of it has the hardness or softness, the swiftness or languor, which the meaning of it calls for.” - C. S. Lewis #writing #writingcommunity

Writing starts when rewriting begins. Everything before that was a version of thinking out loud. #writing #writingcommunity

The wife introduced me to #Wicked last night, and I’m starting 2025 shook. And already watching it again.

“Prose is the residue of decision-making.” - Verlyn Klinkenborg, Several Short Sentences on Writing #writing #writingcommunity #storytelling

Much of the bad writing we did yesterday led to the better writing we did today. And much of the bad writing we did today will lead to the better writing we’ll do tomorrow. While some of our past writing is, in fact, bad, none of it is, in fact, wasted. #writing #writingcommunity #storytelling

Jimmy Carter has passed away. My wife says he was the last decent man in politics.

Breaking news: Jimmy Carter, a no-frills and steel-willed Southern governor who was elected president in 1976, died Sunday at his home in Plains, Georgia, according to his son. He was 100 and the oldest living U.S. president of all time.

We underestimate the vulnerability it takes to write just about anything. #writing #writingcommunity #writers

Remember, writers: Not every piece you write needs to be, let alone feel like, your best writing. #writingcommunity #storytelling #writing

Prewrite and draft to make meaning. Rewrite and revise to be understood. #writingcommunity #writing #storytelling

Here I am, using #Bluesky. I can’t say why, but this already feels a little more, like, not a social media cesspool.