Sitemap - 2023 - Desk Notes by Charles Schifano

A Year to Review

Appendix Probi

How Very Relatable

Listening to the Muses

The Solitary Creator

The Invention of the Future

Burn After Not Reading

Black Coffee

If a Darkened Day

Stubbornness

All The Unheard Words

The Highest Values

The Sentence Stylist

What's Missing from AI Writing

A Tragic Sensibility

Teachers Don't Exist

Leaving The Garden

Old News

September 2023

A Purpose to Creativity

Tests of Fluency

The Shaping of Character

Speaking with an Accent

Perfectly Imperfect

Maximization

Those Who Can't Teach

Always Improving

The Power Struggle

Regret and Remorse

Human Stories

Discarding Words

July 2023

Fear, Excitement, and Thresholds

Abandoned Novels

1968 Has Ended

True Fiction

The Proper Distance

Pretending to Listen

The Value of Art

June 2023

Sensations of Childhood

Disappointing Lines

The Geometry of Stories

Individual Lies

Making Judgements

If an Artist Feels

May 2023

The Necessity of Precision

Some Notes on Self-Sabotage

The Sentence Writer

First Drafts

Walls that Whisper

The Addressless

How to Practice Writing

Some Notes on American Presidents and British Monarchs

If a Light

April 2023

Some Notes on Notes

Seeing is Believing

Underwriting

To be Tantalized

Marble Nudity

Some Notes on Bookstores

March 2023

If a Moment

Stepping through Sludge

The Secret Sauce

Storytime

Writing for Readers

Transfer at 42nd Street

February 2023

When ChatGPT Reads Roald Dahl

At the Edge of the Known

Art is in the Eye of the Critic

On Political Journalism

Listen, Memory

The Art of Mistranslation

All Those Liars

January 2023

On Perfection

Brazilian Green

The Expanding Novel

Some Notes On Naples

Attention!

Dividing With Words

One Failure of Contemporary English Teaching

A Fire In Italy

2023 Announcement