So there I was, scrolling through social media, when an ad popped up on my feed. “Write blog posts 10X faster with robots!” it said. O-kay, I thought. Sure. What could possibly go wrong? A bit of googling later, I’d fallen down the rabbit hole of AI content generation-sites that…

As an angsty Avenger with anger-management issues, I‘m feeling under-appreciated here — r/AmItheAsshole u/biggreenguy_throwaway_58761 A couple weeks ago, I (Bruce, 52m) went for a drive with my cousin (Jennifer, 37f). I admit it, things got a little out of control — a giant spaceship cut us off on a winding mountain road, hurtling us down a hillside toward our certain death, you…

All my life, I’ve believed that no matter how dark this world gets, there’s light behind that darkness, light that always shines through in the end. This belief has been fundamental to my writing, to the sometimes-dark stories I tell and to all the stories I tell. Terrible things happen…

Or what I’ve been doing the past ten years Recently, when I told an extended family member I had work to do, he snapped back at me, “What work? When was the last time you wrote a book — ten years ago?” His response says more about him than me…

Hot, Hotter, Scorching. Temperatures spike, Engulfing the country, Expect a heat wave. Excessive, Extreme, Little relief in sight. Summer has not been able to escape. Source: “ Another Major Heat Wave Sweeps the U.S.,” The New York Times, August 2, 2022. Originally published at https://www.simner.com on August 4, 2022.

Writing is a strange business sometimes. We think we’re writing for readers, and then it turns out we’re writing for ourselves. We think we’re writing for our present selves, and then it turns out we’re writing for the children-we-were or the adults-we-will be. Or both. Today I came upon ”Seal…