Process
AI Can Clarify Thought Instead of Replacing It
The Accusation Is About Origin, Not Appearance The accusation that using AI makes writing deceptive sounds strong because it targets authorship, not style. It implies that if a tool is involved at any stage, the final product is no longer truly yours. That assumption only holds if the tool is the source of the thinking. If the reasoning, direction, and conclusions originate elsewhere, then the presence of a tool does not transfer ownership. It only affects how the ideas are presented.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast9 days ago in Writers
Preservation as an Act of Care
Care is usually associated with people, not with ideas. It brings to mind attentiveness, patience, protection, and responsibility toward something fragile. Meaning rarely enters that picture. Thoughts are assumed to be abundant, replaceable, and endlessly renewable. If one is lost, another will come. This assumption feels practical, but it is wrong in a quiet and costly way. Some meanings are not interchangeable. Some insights arrive only once, shaped by a particular moment, a particular season, or a particular convergence of experience that will never repeat in the same form.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast10 days ago in Writers
What Survives After Editing
Writing usually starts out in a worse form than people ever get to see. It comes out messy, repetitive, overexplained, and half-formed. Editing is where you go back, cut what’s dead, fix what’s weak, and keep only what still holds. That’s the point where writing either gets better or gets abandoned.
By Annam M Gordon10 days ago in Writers
A truth
If you have a truth it could never be taken away from you no matter how quiet it sounds when you say it out loud, it could never be taken away from you no matter if people try and squash it down or dilute the tears it’s cried out, it will remain and be fulfilled, it can never be taken away from you.
By Ruhani Khadijah10 days ago in Writers
When USCIS Questions Roles That Seem to Span Multiple Specialties
A Multiple Specialty Occupations Request for Evidence is issued when U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services believes a position may fall under more than one field of study. This raises questions about whether the role truly requires a specific bachelor’s degree in a particular specialty.
By Sheila Danzig11 days ago in Writers
How Editing Changes the “AI Score” More Than Writing
The first time I saw this happen, the draft itself was ordinary. A student wrote it in her own voice, with the usual uneven rhythm people have when they are trying to explain something they actually understand. Then she edited it for an hour. She cleaned every sentence, trimmed every extra word, made the transitions smoother, and ran the whole thing through a detector. The score went up.
By Karen Covey13 days ago in Writers
Text and Subtext
Haiku of Now challenge results were released on Friday. Haiku challenges are easy winners’ page reads, but good grief, the judges had to slog through over 1300, minus the ones that were disqualified for not adhering. A couple of mine probably fell into that pile—if you read beyond the blurb, it was a very specific challenge—no past, no reflection, no past tense, no interpretation—just a lived-in moment. Some of mine reflected or interpreted, may have even had a past tense verb somewhere.
By Harper Lewis14 days ago in Writers
