7-40 Challenge | Round 5 Day 5 An AI tool will do almost anything you ask it to. For a while I treated that as the whole point — like the win was the capability. Look how much I can produce now. Look how fast. But something strange happens when capacity stops being the bottleneck. … Continue reading What You’re For
Tag: self-improvement
Introducing Myself
7-40 Challenge | Round 5 Day 4 Before I can write a character, I have to introduce myself to them. That sounds strange for people I invented, but it's the truest way I know to describe it. I have to spend time — not just in the story I want to tell, but in the … Continue reading Introducing Myself
The Room I Can’t Read
7-40 Challenge | Round 5 Day 1 I recorded four minutes of thoughts on my walk this morning and never stumbled once. Then I sat down to film a thirty-second video saying the same thing, and my brain locked up. That gap has bothered me for a while, because on paper it makes no sense. … Continue reading The Room I Can’t Read
The Subplot
7-40 Challenge | Planning Week I've been thinking about my life as a story, and about who's actually holding the pen. Here's where I've landed. God's design is the plot. It's going somewhere, and it reaches its ending whether or not I cooperate. I don't get to write that. What I get is a subplot … Continue reading The Subplot
The Third of July
7-40 Challenge | Planning Week My son and I don't get out alone much. Tonight we did. Our town shoots fireworks on the third and the fourth, so my wife kissed us both goodnight and sent us off — just the two of us, no plan beyond finding a spot and watching the sky come … Continue reading The Third of July
