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Every lesson, course, essay, and standard in one place. Filter by where you are in the work, what you write, and how much of a role you want AI to play.

29 entries · all free

29 entries

course · cross-genre

DIY MFA with AI

A long-form curriculum for serious writers.

2+ hours · free

course · screenwriting

Cinema Writing Studio

Build a feature or pilot with scene-level craft.

2+ hours · free

course · fiction

The City as Character

A self-paced craft course on making cities create action, pressure, memory, and choice in fiction.

2+ hours · free

standard · cross-genre

Publishing Standards

Editorial and attribution standards for AI-assisted writing.

30-60 min · free

post · cross-genre

The Shelf Nobody Touched

A closing bookstore stripped its fiction section bare and left the writing aisle untouched. On burnout, AI as a way to show the work, and the gap between loving books and believing you could make one.

10-30 min · free

post · cross-genre

Compost the Slop and Grow Something New

A craft reflection on first drafts, AI collaboration, and the writer's responsibility to compost weak language into meaningful prose.

10-30 min · free

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Go to the Museum Before You Explain the Scene.

Train your eye at the museum: placement, gaze, gesture, object, and absence as scene craft—with seven artwork studies, field exercises, and bounded AI prompts.

10-30 min · free

post · cross-genre

The Ghost in the Style Machine

If AI can learn a writer's style, what remains of voice? A craft-first argument for defining voice as consequence, not just sound.

10-30 min · free

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Twelve Magazines to Keep on the Fiction Writer’s Desk

A fiction writer’s reading shelf: twelve literary magazines and a practical framework for studying contemporary craft without imitation.

10-30 min · free

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Disclosure Without Panic.

How to talk about AI use like a professional writer: plainly, proportionally, and without turning your process into a confession booth.

10-30 min · free

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Let Huxe Read the Room Before You Enter It.

A writer-focused guide to using Huxe as an audio research and pattern-detection tool without losing craft judgment or creative agency.

10-30 min · free

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AI Is Not Your Muse. It Is Your Tuning Fork.

A craft-first guide for poets on using AI as a revision instrument: pattern detection, line-pressure diagnostics, and decision-forcing exercises.

10-30 min · free

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20 Plays Writers Should Read for Craft Mastery

An annotated cross-era reading list of 20 plays writers should study to sharpen scene design, dialogue, structure, and dramatic pressure.

10-30 min · free

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AI Has a Research Brain.

A writer-focused guide to Deep Research in ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and NotebookLM—including where these tools fail and how to verify what matters.

10-30 min · free

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Train It On Your Best Work.

Build a personal style document that calibrates AI feedback to your own voice instead of generic prose norms.

10-30 min · free

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Two Readers, One Scene.

Run one scene through a developmental editor and a resistant first reader to separate objective revision problems from strategic craft choices.

10-30 min · free

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Reading AI Feedback Like a Writer.

An AI response is not a verdict. Learn a practical system for sorting signal from noise, pushing back well, and revising with clear decisions.

10-30 min · free

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The Scene on the Table.

A complete, step-by-step walkthrough of how to take a stuck scene into an AI revision session — from the first brief to the final decision about what to keep.

10-30 min · free

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When Your Character Stops Moving.

Every writer hits the wall where a character stops feeling like a person and starts feeling like a function. Five prompts to break them open again and out of cliché.

10-30 min · free

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AI Has a Desk, Not a Filing Cabinet.

Every revision session with AI begins from scratch. Understanding the context window helps long-form writers design better, focused editing sessions.

10-30 min · free

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Don't Let It Sand You Down.

AI feedback often pushes prose toward the statistical average—here's how to preserve the stylistic fingerprints that make your voice yours.

10-30 min · free

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Talk to It Like an Editor.

Prompting and context engineering can turn generic AI feedback into precise, revision-ready editorial insight.

10-30 min · free

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The Machine That Guesses — Brilliantly.

An AI doesn't know what it's going to say next—it predicts it. Understanding that one fact changes everything about how you work with these tools.

10-30 min · free

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AI Doesn't Read. It Eats.

Before you hand your prose to an AI, there's one thing you need to know about how it actually reads your words.

10-30 min · free

lesson · cross-genre

Finding Your Unique Voice

DIY MFA with AI: Core Skills

30-60 min · free

lesson · cross-genre

AI as a Brainstorming Partner

Intro to AI

30-60 min · free

lesson · cross-genre

The Engine of Story: Goal, Motivation, and Conflict

The Writer's Apprenticeship: A Two-Year, Self-Paced MFA

30-60 min · free

lesson · cross-genre

The Living World: Mastering Setting and Scene Construction

The Writer's Apprenticeship: A Two-Year, Self-Paced MFA

30-60 min · free

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DIY MFA with AI Lesson Five: Weaving the Fabric

The Writer's Apprenticeship: A Two-Year, Self-Paced MFA

30-60 min · free