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Facebook author groups are full of arguments concerning the use of AI. Some writers consider it the most useful tool since the printing press. Others see it as competition. If you don't know, AI is now capable of writing entire books, and it's sometimes tough to tell what came from a human being and what came from a machine. Arguments about the use of AI break out often among authors, but one comment made yesterday really resonated with me: "Who cares? This entire industry is dead." I have...

One of the questions I'm often asked is whether I can help someone write their story. There's no shortage of ideas out there. Everyone has a book inside them. But how does someone go about getting it out of their head and into book form? The answer is simple: they write. Sure, they could hire someone to tell their story, but then it would be told from someone else's perspective. Writing is hard work, mostly performed on top of the demands of full-time jobs and responsibilities of daily life....

When I first signed up with Wix, I had every intention of blogging regularly. It didn't take long for a full-time job and the many, many demands on time that follow the death of a spouse--not to mention the sorrow--to turn that goal into a pipedream. So here I am, six months later, drafting something my two readers might accept as a good excuse for the delay. The truth is, the past few years have been HARD. After Maury's death, a mountain of work and many bills nearly toppled me. This, on top...