aubrie in the open

Can somebody check on Character.AI?

C.ai is pushing out its own users

Why LinkedIn culture is obsessed with failing up

Meet the heroes of the professional crowd, and their forgotten sidekicks.

What happens when communities bend to nearly breaking

How a novel about witches became a career in asking dangerous questions

LinkedIn culture is addicted to failing up

The hero's journey is a LinkedIn mainstay. But who's playing the sidekick?

2026-04-04

I might be hosting a podcast soon! Won't say too much about it until the trailer drops, but I'm excited to start interviewing. Recently joined a novel support course alongside eleven other people. Sh…

The Science of Storytelling

Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better

Thinking way too hard about creators monetizing their terrible relationships

Today in "the straights are not okay..."

Personal Branding for Introverts

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This is a test post to see if footnotes are working. Maybe they are, or maybe they aren't. I don't know. But I really hope they are because Claude[1] wasted so much of my time yesterday. 1. C…

Art makes art of you.

Really encouraged by what Sanderson had to say on genAI. Its environmental impact is terrifying enough. Then there’s the stress AI puts on creative industries, and the way it exacerbates anti-intelle…

Women Who Run With the Wolves

How the heroine's journey intersects with the psychological and the spiritual

AI artists are missing the point

Seriously. What are you getting out of it?

What do we want our post-social media world to look like?

It's time to climb out of our hyper-individualistic rabbit holes.

Beginning again (under capitalism)

"So. Everything crumbled."

Literary husband applications are open | The AuDHD creative routine

Trying to be great, but I'll start with "getting it together."

The Emotional Craft of Fiction

Hoping it's helpful for a character-driven debut novel.

"Don'cha wanna be an owner?!"

I wanted to build a personal brand, not become one.

"I need to relax. I should write a story."

Oops, it's a trilogy now.

On weapons and wild animals

More uncomfy lessons from a woman writing men

Witches and witch hunters: a feminist parable

Because I'm tired of y'all and your "high value man/woman" schtick!

When mental health won't "let" you be consistent

If your dial goes from 1 to 11 with no in-between, this one's for you.

AuDHD writers, intentional consumption is your friend

AKA, how a 25-year-old film broke my writer's block

Starting messy (but starting anyway)

It doesn't have to be perfect; it just has to exist.

POV: You're truly the starving artist

Do you ever feel like you're "too pure" to make real money?