Teaching or studying writing can feel scattered when your resources don’t quite connect. This post brings together five carefully designed tools that build on each other to create a clear learning path: The Sweet n Salty Guide to Becoming a Poet, The Descriptionari Book, Sweet 'n' Salty Poems, Collection One, and two classic‑novel study guides for The Wind in the Willows and A Christmas Carol. Together, they form a “dream package” that helps teachers, students and independent

Some poems walk in softly. These do not. They arrive with bruised knuckles, tired eyes, and a stubborn light that refuses to go out.

The great changes in life can be opportunities too. If you look a little closer at the other side of the rubicon, put your fear to one side and make a little space for creative wonder... Something new emerges from the gloom. In a little while, it stops seeming as if a terrible calamity has happened, and more as if it is the next stepping stone to continue in a new way. It starts to look like evolution, a thing that that was always supposed to be made real. So, naturally, the

In our modern era we have generative artificial intelligence that can write, illustrate and publish a book from a single prompt. So, where does that leave authors? Students? Educators? Well, strangely enough it takes us back to a life before computers... Yet one that is facilitated by them. When four year old can yawn and ask an AI to make a new poem collection or something similar to the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, then all of it becomes somewhat pointless. Or does it? I can us

When creatives teach creatives something magical happens. The student sees themselves both in the master artist and, importantly, themselves as a future master of the craft. After all, every master was once an apprentice. We all begin somewhere, wondering if we have what it takes to become great. This is especially true in a world where generative AI will become our great asset and our great challenge. AI can help a poet or a writer with few resources put together a website t