Illustration by Daniel de La Feuille, from Devises et Emblemes Anciennes & Modernes (1699).

Source: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign / Internet Archive

Available to buy as a print.

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On listening to music

When did I become too busy to spend an hour doing nothing but listen?

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On listening to music

When did I become too busy to spend an hour doing nothing but listen?

Odyssey

The Wrong Parent

Today, Max asked me to look at his descriptive writing assignment from school. He didn’t really want help. Not really. He just wanted a quick fix. A skim-and-sign-off.

*But he chose the wrong parent.*

He flopped beside me on the bed, reluctant. I scanned his draft and saw the usual: a decent attempt, a few bright spots, but mostly scaffolding, words and phrases repeating. It read like someone trying to finish a thing, not someone trying to say something. To show something.

I quipped, […]

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The Wrong Parent

Today, Max asked me to look at his descriptive writing assignment from school. He didn’t really want help. Not really. He just wanted a quick fix. A skim-and-sign-off. *But he chose the wrong parent.* He flopped beside me on the bed, reluctant. I scanned his draft and saw the usual: a decent attempt, a few [...]

Odyssey

Thoughts on Asimov’s Cal

I read Asimov’s Cal before breakfast and couldn’t stop thinking about creativity, ambition—and murder. What if your writing assistant wanted the byline? A thread on AI, authorship, and what Cal teaches us

https://xavierroy.com/thoughts-on-asimovs-cal/

Thoughts on Asimov’s Cal

I read Asimov’s Cal before breakfast and couldn’t stop thinking about creativity, ambition—and murder. What if your writing assistant wanted the byline? A thread on AI, authorship, and what Cal teaches us

Odyssey
What I Learned in My Mid-Career Writing Crisis

They've said you'll never get published, so here's the question author Anna Mitchael considers: Do you care?

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