Should Writers Use AI?
A practical, unsensational way to think about artificial intelligence in the writing life.
Editorial Desk
The writer’s room for the age of artificial intelligence.
Essays on craft, privacy, originality, and the uneasy role of machines in the writing life.
The blank page has changed. The responsibility has not.
This is a quiet place for writers thinking about the sentence, the source, and the soul of the work. The questions here are practical, but not small: what belongs to the writer, what should stay private, and how creative control survives contact with convenience.
Featured essays
Notes from the desk.
Writing about machines should still sound human. These essays favor clarity over panic, judgment over novelty, and craft over spectacle.
The Problem With Letting AI Rewrite Your Voice
Why voice is not a layer of polish, and why writers should be careful with automated rewrites.
Why Privacy Matters for Unfinished Manuscripts
Unfinished work needs room to be wrong, strange, excessive, and protected.
Principles
What we protect.
Editorial Desk begins with respect for the unfinished page. The writer’s judgment is not a decorative final step. It is the instrument.
The work belongs to the writer.
A draft is not a commodity before it is a sentence. Judgment remains with the person doing the work.
Privacy is part of craft.
Unfinished thought needs a room with a door. Writers deserve care around private drafts and research.
Tools should not flatten voice.
Good help preserves the strangeness, rhythm, and pressure that make a page feel alive.
Originality deserves careful handling.
Influence, assistance, and authorship are not the same thing. The difference matters.
Better writing starts with better judgment.
Speed has its uses. Depth asks for attention, patience, and a willingness to choose.