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Why Drawing an Eye Will Fix Your Writing
Learn how drawing an eye holds the secret to mastering Point of View in fiction. Discover how first-person bias, third-person interiority, and eliminating filtering verbs can turn flat prose into a living story world.
Build Your Creative Vault
Discover why you should build a digital Second Brain to synthesize your writing, visual art, and TTRPG campaigns. Learn how to pair human creativity with Google NotebookLM to eliminate brain fog and streamline your story worlds.
Beyond the Front Cover: How the EU AI Act Will Reshape Book Design
The EU AI Act’s Article 50 enforces strict transparency rules for photorealistic synthetic humans, leaving digital book covers in the regulatory spotlight. While genres like Romance, Thrillers, and Urban Fantasy face immediate visual shifts, authors don’t need to sacrifice style for legal compliance. Discover how shifting to stylized illustrations and smart design pivots can keep your covers compliant, market-ready, and clutter-free—without risking your EU book sales.
Which Screw to Turn
A lesson from NASA on why understanding how things work matters. Discover why writers and visual artists must master their craft’s underlying fundamentals instead of depending on automated tools.
Draw with Me – Female Superhero
Download the Pose File In this video, I walk through how to take a downloadable pose file from my site, trace the core structure, and turn it into a full character pencil sketch—in this case, Supergirl! Since AI image generators restrict creating third-party...
I’ve Been “Cheating” at Art Since 1980
Why I’m Writing This Late the other night, I was looking through the comments on one of my videos and ran across someone whining about my process. They were upset because they suspected AI was part of my workflow, demanding that I "prove" the work was 100% my own...
If You Can’t See the Character in Your Head, You Can’t Write Them on the Page
Every author knows that characters evolve over time. The person who appears in Chapter One is rarely the exact same person who steps out of Chapter Thirty. But there is a massive difference between a character who grows organically through story events and a character...
My College Professor Taught Me to Write Like AI—in 1985
If you run my short story Ghost Orbit through a modern AI detector, the results are almost unanimous: 100% AI-generated. According to these algorithms, my prose was forged in a digital furnace by an advanced machine learning model. There’s just one small problem: I...
Reverse-Engineering a Book Cover: How Research & AI Solved a Design Dilemma
At the beginning of the week, I was having a rough day and needed a creative distraction. Scrolling through my writer’s group, I stumbled across a fellow author struggling to choose a cover for his upcoming book. He had uploaded two options and asked the group to...
The “Fifty Bad Arms” Principle: Why Mastery Is Just a Volume Game
We have a toxic relationship with talent. When we see someone execute a flawless piece of art, write an effortless chapter of prose, or design a complex system, we default to a comforting lie: They are so talented. We tell ourselves this story because it protects us....