Trust me when I say this: It’s hard putting a manuscript in the drawer. It’s a huge blow to the ego, it’s utterly painful to think back on all the time you spent writing that novel and dreaming about what would happen when you’re finished and admitting to yourself that you came up short. But it’s not time wasted, and you didn’t come up short. The next novel you write is bound to be better. — Nathan Bransford
Executive Orders: A Skeptic’s View of the President’s Actions
With a new authoritarian at the helm, banal summaries of executive orders don’t cut it. So I let ChatGPT do the heavy lifting: provide a brief analysis of each week’s presidential orders from a radical left perspective. No blind trust, no left-wing group think—just a bullshit detector wary of authoritarianism.