KN Magazine: Articles
Between Pen and Paper: Flaneuring Through a Writer’s Mind – The API of the Human Heart, or Why Your Characters Keep Misunderstanding Each Other
What if human communication worked like artificial intelligence? In this thought-provoking craft essay, Andi Kopek compares APIs—Application Programming Interfaces—to the invisible emotional “contracts” we use in conversation. By exploring parsing errors, emotional bandwidth, and schema mismatches, he offers writers a powerful new lens for understanding character conflict, empathy, gaslighting, and love. When characters misunderstand each other, it may not be malice—it may be incompatible formatting.
This Crazy Writing Life: When Publishing Throws You A Curve Ball—Again—And The Scammers Circle Above
Publishing is a people business—until it isn’t. In this installment of This Crazy Writing Life, Steven Womack shares the rollercoaster saga of his novel Pearson Place, from near-acquisition heartbreak to unexpected second chances. But just as hope resurfaces, scammers swoop in with AI-generated flattery and too-good-to-be-true offers. This candid, sharp-edged craft essay offers hard-won wisdom about perseverance, publishing politics, and protecting yourself in a predatory literary landscape.
This Crazy Writing Life: Requiescat in pace—In Memory Of The Mass-Market Paperback
A thoughtful, firsthand obituary for the mass-market paperback—once the backbone of American reading culture—examining its rise, decline, and legacy, while exploring what its death means for writers, publishers, and the future of storytelling.
Between Pen and Paper: Flaneuring Through a Writer’s Mind – The Quiet Power of a Daffodil
April blooms in Nashville with daffodils and poetry, reminding us of the quiet power verse holds to inspire, comfort, and even ignite revolution. From Warsaw to Budapest, from Cairo to Nashville, poetry is more than art—it’s resistance, renewal, and radical presence.
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