If you’d like to receive my blog in your in-box each week, click here. This morning I received an email from an author I’ve been working with on a multiple-pass edit wanting to cancel the rest of our contract, saying that she’d lost faith in her story and her ability to write it and had to...| FoxPrint Editorial
“Why is it every time a new thing is invented humans immediately try to use it for porn?” That’s a memorable quote from an episode of The Good Place, a favorite show the hubs and I are delightedly rewatching—but what struck me as we watched it last night was that the same seems| FoxPrint Editorial
If you’d like to receive my blog in your in-box each week, click here. My husband and I are different types of travelers, in ways that reflect our very different personalities. I am a planner. I like to learn as much as I can about a place we’re planning to visit, what there is to do...| FoxPrint Editorial
Given what we know about how easily modern tech tools can creep into taking over an outsize place in our lives, it’s worth being mindful and intentional about how we’re using them. The more we think through how we avail ourselves of AI capabilities in our writing and careers, the better we can create a relationship with it that allows us to not only tap the potential benefits, but safeguard ourselves against the possible drawbacks and dangers to our work. Rather than going right away to A...| FoxPrint Editorial
If you’d like to receive my blog in your in-box each week, click here. Over dinner with friends the other night, I commented in conversation that I had recently deleted all the social media apps off my phone. Their eyes got big. “Wow,” one said. “Good for you,” the other ch| FoxPrint Editorial
How much of our lives do we regard as items on our to-do list? We often speak of obligations, responsibilities, duty—all the things we have to take care of before we can allow ourselves to work on what we want to. But the truth is, as the cliché goes, the only things we have to do are die and pay taxes (and judging by the loophole-riddled tax returns of high-profile billionaires and government officials, the latter is apparently optional too). Most things in our lives are things we choose ...| FoxPrint Editorial
If you’d like to receive my blog in your in-box each week, click here. Last week my husband sent me this terrifying article—a Microsoft study about the 40 jobs likely to be most imminently impacted by AI and the 40 that might be safest. I’m going to let you guess where writ| FoxPrint Editorial
As creatives we are constantly facing choices—many of them in our art blessedly malleable, at least until we’ve published our stories (and even after that, if we indie publish). If you don’t like one path you’ve sent your character down, you can hit delete and let them travel a n| FoxPrint Editorial
There’s a time-honored, romantic image of authors: the solitary genius who lives within the rich worlds in their heads, pecking away at their keyboard in their little attic hideaway or stolen corner of their home, or sitting alone at a busy coffeeshop insulated from the bustle around them with heads bent over their laptops, lost in their own imagination. In almost all cases the recurring motif is solitude, the artist making their art in isolation, the pure act of creation that springs from ...| FoxPrint Editorial
Advice to authors to create a newsletter is ubiquitous, and the reasons are generally solid. It's a direct line of communication to people who are very interested in your work. It's a platform that's totally within your own control and ownership, and the mailing list is your own,| FoxPrint Editorial
Irecently heard a few alarming stories about AI-generated books flooding Amazon. Some of these AI authors are publishing dozens of books in days, c...| Sarah Selecky Writing School
If you’re reading this, I’m assuming you’re curious about how to quit social media. Maybe you took a little break, and you’re reluctant to start u...| Sarah Selecky Writing School
Last month, I was a speaker at Chris Guillebeau’s Neurodivergent2025 conference in Austin. My workshop was called “Sensory Alchemy” — I was talkin...| Sarah Selecky Writing School
You open the fridge and brush your hand against a fuzzy blue-green ball tucked behind the yogurt. Ugh, was that once a lemon? Your phone buzzes—you...| Sarah Selecky Writing School
Do you have a strong foundation for your writing career? If not, it will be harder for you to succeed at building a readership.| Writing and Wellness
I am beginning to believe is that a culture of "peak content" is directly at odds with my desires for my career, my wellbeing, and my life.| Ruby Warrington
