The habits that make readers quietly wonder — even when you wrote every word yourself.

If you use ChatGPT as much as I do, you are aware of a real problem: sometimes it sounds exactly like ChatGPT. The "voice" is a little too polished and uses phrases like "in today's fast-paced world." ...

Robert Frost once wrote that of modern poets he alone was trying to create poetry out of what he called “the sound of sense.” He wasn’t; there were other poets at the time trying to create the same ...