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Dear Hemingway Family and Foundation: Let Me Let Ernest Speak To Us In Broken Spanish (And Teach The World English)
An overview of my method of stepping-stone languages, a tool I’ve made and would like to translate The Old Man and the Sea into, in order to help Native…
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Question: “9-5 related burnout is affecting my creativity. How do I balance the ‘professional’ and ‘creative’?”
Would it be harsh to say that I don’t think there’s any real way to balance them?
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Advice Column: “Why Is Learning A New Language Difficult?”
For my one and singular language learning tip: skip to the last few paragraphs in the second section.
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Advice Column: How do I work up the courage to fix my drafts and keep at it?
This question was submitted on Instagram:
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Advice Column: “How do you handle burnout or the thoughts that your story isn't enough?”
This question was submitted on Instagram.
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Enta-Entee
A Short Story
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August 2026

How To Be A Writer In The Age of A.I
A list of the things I do to show my process when writing.
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How A Polish Immigrant Who Learned English in His 20s Became One of the U.K’s Most Celebrated Writers
In this post I go over the life and influence of Polish-British author Joseph Conrad, paying particular attention to how his prepositional choices give…
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Most English Translations Obscure Just How Romantic the Bible Really Is
In this video, I talk about the benefits of my approach of "hyper-literal" translations, which attempt to keep intact much of the word order and the…
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Poem: The box of lighters in my kitchen. / And the memories I find within.
Here's the lighter given to me by my neighbor Jack, Which I borrowed once but never gave back One night the winter before last, When I had come…
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Poem: This little dust that I am
So oft I feel I am only ever truly happy In your, my dear Lord's, loving company. That the only other soul that mine can manage to touch without pain Is…
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Poem: A crowd in Union Square and the time it holds still
Time moves slower in New York City, Amid the rushing crowd, in those moments you can see The faces of a hundred people in a single breath. Here, amid so…
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