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The secret life of a ghostwriter
What does it take to lend one's writing to someone else? A ghostwriter who has authored multiple books offers a peek into the world of writing sans the fame.
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Craft your scary story with these 4 writing tips from Bryant’s Meher Manda
Whether it’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula or Stephen King’s The Shining, horror stories have spellbound readers since Greek and Roman times...
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I've made thousands of dollars writing trivia questions as a side gig. It helps me pay my rent and makes socializing so much easier.
Noah Sheidlower has made thousands by writing and editing trivia questions for school competitions. He believes it has helped him become a better reporter.
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Minnesota inmates find creative outlet, therapeutic benefit in writing programs
The nonprofit FreeWriters offers writing workshops in jails, encouraging expression and reflection as a means of addressing mental health struggles.
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How to Fix Wordy Writing
A writer and teacher shares a lesson for helping students understand the importance of clear, concise writing, and spotting needless words.
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The Story Behind The Story: How Ghostwriters Shape Public Discourse
Politicians, celebrities, business leaders and influencers from all walks of life increasingly turn to professional writers—ghostwriters—for the literary assistance they need to craft their messages, stories, speeches and online content in a compelling way.
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Millie Bobby Brown’s debut novel is a bestseller. Why does it matter that the actor didn’t write it?
Our discomfort lies more with how a bestselling celebrity novel reconfigures the book as ‘merchandise’.
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Why Silicon Valley’s biggest AI developers are hiring poets
Training data companies are grabbing writers of fiction, drama, poetry, and also general humanities experts to improve AI creative writing.
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A Ghostwriter’s Guide for Invisible Women
Do you feel overlooked or overtalked at the office? Don’t get mad, get tactical. Here’s how.
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Column: The writers' strike was the first workplace battle between humans and AI. The humans won
At a moment when the prospect of executives and managers using software automation to undermine work in professions everywhere loomed large, the WGA strike took on major symbolic weight.
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How to Ensure that You Craft the Perfect Website Copy
With finely crafted website copies, you can influence your target audience, be it for to make them repeat followers of your content or by converting readers to your customers.
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What does Stephen King think about AI writing fiction?
Answer: It has “a certain dreadful fascination.”
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Writing for 'Friends' Was No Dream Job
Patty Lin's disillusionment with TV writing began at her first job—and only grew when she landed a gig on 'Friends.'
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AI writing fails show why it can’t replace human writers
Everybody is looking for a shortcut, but not every shortcut is smart. These AI writing fails from Microsoft show how short-sighted it is to replace writers with machines."
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Microsoft pulls article recommending Ottawa Food Bank to tourists
"Consider going into it on an empty stomach," said a Microsoft Travel article written using "algorithmic techniques."
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Analysis: Is Jailed Alexei Navalny Really Writing All of His Public Messages?
Why would Russian officials allow Alexei Navalny to continue writing critically of the Russian government from behind bars. Statistical analysis suggests a ghostwriter is the most likely author.
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Study finds ChatGPT boosts worker productivity for some writing tasks
A new MIT study highlights the potential of generative AI for certain types of writing assignments in the workplace.
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What Are The Secrets to Social Media Writing?
The average person doesn’t think much before writing on social media. But the average person is not a business with a reputation to build and defend.
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What Happened to All the Sports Books?
20 years after 'Moneyball,' the genre has been drained of its significance—and there's an important culprit to blame.
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No such thing as an aspiring writer
Hang around the #WritingCommunity hashtag on Twitter long enough and you will run into many, many people who claim to be “aspiring writers”. They are lying. There is no such thing as an aspiring writer. Many of them will claim that they are aspiring writers because they have not sold any of their writing.
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