Author: Micah Berg
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Tools Should Serve Artists, Not Extract From Them
Artists and creators are trying to make rent in a world that treats “exposure” like currency and “infinite content” like the default weather. Clients bargain harder. Platforms pay less. Feeds bury work that doesn’t fit whatever the algorithm wants this week. Then generative AI shows up as the ultimate undercutter: fast, cheap, and “good enough”…
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Maps and Settlements
Where I am at right now with Writer’s Suite newly includes a seed-driven generator for settlements so writers can spatialize the civilian settings of their stories if those exist. I’ve added what I think are intuitive controls and options to really give it a more expressive, customizable set of options. What I have not been…
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The Breaking Point
The final straw was small, which is usually how these things go. A close friend asked me to help map the timeline for a story I’m working on. Nothing elaborate. Just events, overlap, causality. The basic grammar of narrative. I went looking for tools and found myself in a familiar maze. Pay per event. “Free”…