Writing / The journal
Essays on voice, creative practice, and working with AI while keeping hold of what makes the words yours.
From the Verbaria journal
Your voice may already be running through the writing you have, waiting to be recognized. Before looking for another description of the…
Read the pieceOpen the last thing you wrote. Not the polished version, but the actual draft. Read it until you find a line only you could have gone to,…
Read the piece : What "Perceived Authorship" Actually Means in a SentenceVoice is defined as much by what a writer refuses as by what they choose. That's the claim this essay makes. Build a voice guide only from…
Read the piece : Voice is what you won't say as much as what you willYou give a writing tool something real: a story from your life, words you chose because they were true. It hands back a name you did not…
Read the piece : When the Tool Loses the Thread, Keep the Context CloseA practice built around completion, and a voice somewhere behind it, hoping to survive.
Read the piece : Does This Still Sound Like MeTrust in writing can build at the level of the sentence. The hook, the format and the writer's reputation all shape what a reader expects.…
Read the piece : The Sentence That Built Trust — and the One That Gave It AwayVoice isn't the risky part of building a newsletter audience. It's part of the mechanism. A useful topic may bring a reader in. A specific…
Read the piece : What Readers Actually Subscribe To in a Writer's NewsletterFrom the journal
Publishing feels mysterious. It isn't. In traditional publishing, a publisher has to believe a book can find readers. That's part of the…
Read the piece : Five Publishing Myths Worth DroppingKeep the reference library and free writing tools beside your reading.