Joining the 100-rejection club

Embracing an unusual badge of honor

While analyzing my submission and publication activity of this year, I discovered than I am now a member of the 100-rejection club. I’ve actually surpassed that milestone by receiving 101 rejections of my submitted writing in 2025.

Should I be despondent about this high number of rejections? Not at all. In a twisted, perverse sort of way (and aren’t most writers twisted and perverse?), I see it as a badge of honor.

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Humans vs. AI: Who’s winning the content wars?

How to we writers battle the AI machine?

This time of year, college students everywhere are playing the in-person role-playing game Humans vs. Zombies. It’s all in good fun, of course. But online, another competition, more foreboding to the future of content creation and the future of writers is taking place.

Call it Humans vs. AI. Like some mutant undead unleashed on civilization, artificial intelligence is threatening to cannibalize online content.

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