The Machine-God Is Not Your Editor

Why I stepped away from the work, and from the model that told me my English was wrong

Jun 28 • D. S. Black

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Your Job is Not in Danger, Artists

On authored vs. generated work and why your choices can't be faked

Jun 27 • D. S. Black

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February 2026

There Was One Sex for Two Thousand Years

A Writer's Guide to Sex, Gender, and Bodies Before the Modern Binary

Feb 10 • D. S. Black

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Contrivance vs. Character: When Plot Mechanics Show Seams

Follow characters instead of pushing them.

Feb 3 • D. S. Black

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January 2026

Why Flat Characters Come From Flat People

The interiority problem in contemporary fiction—and the writers who can't solve it

Jan 27 • D. S. Black

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Oscars for Monsters: The Double Standard Between Actors and Authors

Why Actors Get Awards and Writers Get Angry DMs

Jan 20 • D. S. Black

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The Homosexual Was Invented in 1869

Stop Writing Coming-Out Stories in Period Costume

Jan 13 • D. S. Black

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December 2025

The Canvas and the Cost: What Expedition 33 Understands About Worldbuilding

Why Do You Build Worlds?

Dec 23, 2025 • D. S. Black

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The Author's Psychological Labour

or: You Have to Become the People You Hate

Dec 16, 2025 • D. S. Black

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The Cathedral of Silence

The most emotionally devastating show on television never says a word

Dec 9, 2025 • D. S. Black

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The Gentleman and the Beast

The transformation isn't the point. Containment is.

Dec 2, 2025 • D. S. Black

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November 2025

Stop Making Your Protagonists Sympathetic

Why the most interesting characters are the ones (other people say) you shouldn't like

Nov 25, 2025 • D. S. Black

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