I’m over here, if you’re looking for me!

I am writing more often on Substack these days. You can go there to read those things (there's a gradually-growing collection of stuff at our Substack, Write Well & Publish Wisely), or you could download the Substack app to your phone and read our stuff there as a Substack native.

Or you could just subscribe to our Substack without actually creating a Substack account or downloading the app. In that way, you'll get each new free post from Write Well & Publish Wisely as an email! Easy peasy, and no fussing wth a whole new platform.

Here's a sample, below. This isn't even a WW&PN post: I restacked a post from The Biblioracle (John Warner) and added a comment to it. John replied, twice! I am thrilled, and answered him as best I could, each time.

I hope you'll be thrilled with it too, no matter what you think about the idea of "AI writing tools" —which are not exactly the same as "generative AI" or "chatbots." You'll see!

I am all for authors learning to use AI writing and editing tools. Part of learning to use a tool is understanding the tool itself, how it works, so that you can use it skillfully. Honing your skill with any tool will achieve at least two crucial goals: you improve the quality of the work you do with that tool, and you are less likely to harm yourself or your WIP if you slip up. Partly because you’re less likely to slip up at all if you are highly skilled with that tool! I also share John Warner’s aversion to widespread uncritical embrace of AI—see below. But none of this disqualifies AI writing tools, especially for fiction! I’ll go into more detail later. If you’re interested, subscribe so you don’t miss it!

- Nicolas Nelson

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