The following is a guest post from Purposeful Prose's own Chartres Royale. The tools that we use for composition are not limited to our screens, our minds, or even our pencils. They start with us, and they keep moving forward. This article will be divided into two parts as the subject matter is worth the time and attention we spend perfecting it. Hello again, my dear readers. It’s me, your favorite collection of terrible ideas here to talk to you at length about things related to writing....

With the understanding that authors around the globe have been reading, interpreting, and processing the allegations that have been hurled against an author for AI use in their novel. I am not a journalist. I am an editor and a reader. This issue has been so widespread that I feel naming it directly would detract from my points. I have been reading the published articles, listening to podcasts, and watching videos because I want to understand, as fully as possible, where my fellow rhetors are...

Dear Purposeful Prose, I had a hard time giving my writing to an editor for the first time. I completely self-edited my first book, but I’ve learned that if I keep doing that, I’m going to be stuck in a rut throughout my writing journey. My editor has a lot of great ideas, but the issue is in the details. There are a few writing quirks that I had that I thought worked well in my manuscript. I like to sometimes repeat wording for emphasis, for example, and when I do it, I like how it sounds....