For thousands of years, humans have used living documents to unite in the cause of progress. Writers have written these documents down; now it’s time to create our own. — As the pen is mightier than the sword, and as language is the power behind nations, ideologies, religions, cultures, and human endeavors, it falls to writers to wield their power morally and with respect. This declaration is intended to unify the collective conscience of writers everywhere; to acknowledge their duties…

Stop finding reasons for young abusers and treat them as what they are: problems. And they need to be stopped. — Ah, school bullies. Many have had them, many have been them. Many have watched them from the sidelines as they abuse other kids and torment whoever they decide to target. Anyone on the receiving end can tell you: these kids are assholes. Big, stinky, worthless assholes who not only do…

This is an open letter to all those who argue the personhood of the American fetus. You win! I’ll go ahead and pretend to believe, unequivocally, that a fetus is a person and has a person’s rights. I still have the legal and ethical right to get an abortion if…

A stream of consciousness let loose from the void. A word-offering. The burden of writing worlds into existence. — The burden and the wonder of writing is this: we have been tasked with describing the indescribable, and we are either arrogant or innocent enough to do it. Over and over again, without fail. Have you ever gone back to a story you told and felt the power of the…

Long ago, the Earl of Oxford approached the illustrious throne of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth I. He knew courtly manners inside and out, had likely performed perfect bows a hundred times before. He knelt low before his Queen, graceful and poised… And he ripped ass. Really ripped ass. It was…

It’s not idealism to say that writers run the modern world. We need to take that power and use it like never before. — For all our touting of phrases like “the pen is mightier than the sword,” or “stories move us all,” many day-to-day writers hardly consider the possibility that they––that you––have real, tangible power over the world. To this, I say: Who the f*** else can reach thousands of people in digital…