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Last Updated on May 18, 2025 by Nathaniel Tower Have you noticed that a lot of the content you’ve been consuming lately seems…familiar? Like you’ve seen it all before? If so, your eyes aren’t playing tricks on you. You’re likely looking at the work of artificial intelligence (AI).   AI-generated content is everywhere now, and … Continue reading Why Original Content Still Matters in the Age of AI

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Last Updated on March 10, 2025 by Nathaniel Tower Google vs. AI Search: A Tale of Two Shoe Hunts You need a pair of shoes. Not just any shoes—comfortable, stylish dress shoes that can handle a full day of walking and standing. You do what you’ve always done: head to Google and type “comfortable dress … Continue reading What is Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) and Why You Need to Invest in It Now

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Last Updated on January 20, 2025 by Nathaniel Tower When creating a character, their appearance is a useful nonverbal means of informing the reader or viewer about who they are. This can move their story forward, establish key elements of their persona, and even provide hints about their backstory and motivations. It helps mold them … Continue reading Creating A Realistic Character With Glasses

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Last Updated on August 24, 2024 by Nathaniel Tower Semicolons: because sometimes a period just seems too final, and a comma doesn’t always pull its weight. Semicolons are here to step in when you’ve got two complete thoughts that are way too dependent on each other to be split apart, but you’re also not ready … Continue reading How to use semicolons without trying too hard to be cool

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Last Updated on August 10, 2024 by Nathaniel Tower Clear and comfortable vision is crucial for your writing practice; without it, pursuing your passion becomes much more challenging.  Despite knowing this, most writers do not totally understand facts in relation to vision loss and blindness that can affect how you care for your eyes. For … Continue reading Why Eye and Vision Care Are Crucial For Your Writing Practice

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Last Updated on July 24, 2024 by Nathaniel Tower Ah, character descriptions—the holy grail of fiction writing where the faint-hearted dare not tread. If you’re a writer, you’ve probably spent countless hours trying to perfect this delicate art. And if you’ve read enough books, you’ve likely encountered the full spectrum: from descriptions so sparse you’d … Continue reading Common Mistakes Writers Make with Character Descriptions (and How to Avoid Them)

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Last Updated on July 24, 2024 by Nathaniel Tower When working in the digital environment, communications hold the key and hence Safe Document Sharing is the key to success. The issue is most sensitive for writers because they invest a lot. No matter if you are writing a book, creating a research paper, or contributing … Continue reading Sharing Made Simple: How Writers Can Safely Use WeTransfer for Document Sharing

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Last Updated on July 12, 2024 by Nathaniel Tower The Oxford comma is without a doubt the most hotly debated grammar topic of all time. There have even been court cases about it. People argue constantly over whether or not you should use the Oxford comma. Here is the simple answer: I recommend always using … Continue reading Why you should always use the Oxford comma

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Last Updated on July 9, 2024 by Nathaniel Tower I’ve made a lot of mistakes as a writer.  When I was first trying to get my writing published, I had no clue what I was doing. And this was back in the day when the majority of publications only accepted submissions via mail, so every … Continue reading Mistakes writers make when trying to get published

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Last Updated on July 12, 2024 by Nathaniel Tower We’re about to talk about the worse grammatical mistake in history. There’s a funny thing about possessive pronouns. They don’t use apostrophes. Even the ones that end in ‘s.’ Here are the possessives pronouns you probably use a lot: Mine, yours, theirs, ours, his, hers, whose. … Continue reading Why do people say I’s? Please don’t ever use this abomination of a word.

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