"Technology is both bard and bandit"—there is no truer way to describe the modern writer's paradox. We live in an era where the very tools that grant us a global stage are the ones constantly trying to burglarize our quiet spaces.

In 2013 I had a vision for writing that snarky non-woke kind of grit: it remains a still-stubborn decision to prioritize deep, spiritual ideas over the fleeting, algorithmic chatter of the internet.

Unpacking A Writer's Paradox

• The Necessary Evil: Blogging forces a rapid fire of thought for quick consumption. It can feel entirely antithetical to the slow, rich brewing that fiction demands.

• The Sacred Ordinary: Finding those big ideas in "ordinary places with familiar friends" is where real, literary texture comes from. Grounding the sweeping arcs of fiction in the recognizable truth of daily life is what makes a story stick to a reader's ribs.

“Fiction is always larger than the life we once knew.”

Rebecca Templeman, 2026