Dustin S. Klein

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@SDDonovan Miles Davis is a regular go-to. Numerous recordings.

If you listen to music while you write, what do you usually listen to?

#DealmakersBoston How do you ensure legacy through transition?

#DealmakersBoston Discussing success metrics for buyers dealing with first-time sellers.

#DealmakersBoston Are you ready to sell your business if an offer arrived today?

@DrDoyleSays The reality is they trained AI on how we write—and it’s annoying!

I'm not fucking changing how I write because AI now writes in my favorite tropes (em dashes, semicolons, lists of threes, short sentences). Fuck that. I'm going to write how I write (which reflects how I talk, by the by). AI doesn't get to impact my writing style.

@bluewmist Well said!

i'm a big fan of the "gps theory" when you miss a turn, your gps doesn't judge you, it recalculates. no matter how many detours you take, it finds another way forward. life works like that too. you'll make mistakes, but your destination doesn't vanish. the route just changes.

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@SDDonovan Hi

Okay, I went and messed up my feed & algorithm and don't see authors anymore 😭😭. Just hockey, so much hockey. If you're a writer or reader can you say hi so I can fix my algorithm? I'll follow back as many as I can, too. ♥️

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@Matt_Pinner 20.

I got only 2 point. You?

@deborahyelle2 It becomes more interesting when they start to break out… ;)

Being an author is interesting because why do I have all these characters and stories living rent-free in my head 💀

@trincun That should read “want to impart”.

@trincun Pick a couple of key messages and takeaways you want to also. Start with an anecdote from your life and then weave the key messages throughout. End with the rest of the initial story that ties it all together.

I've been invited to be a keynote speaker at a local event and I'm realizing how different it is to write a speech vs. a novel. I feel out of my depth. 😬 Please, if you have any, send all the tips my way. The theme is empowerment.

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@SDDonovan Latter points in the middle, where all plot lines need to start clearly converging.

Hey writers, what's hardest part of writing for you? The beginning, the middle, or the end of of a book?

@SDDonovan @justcastellon Yup. Ran a business book I wrote 15 years ago thru a professor’s AI detector. 88% confident AI-written. We laughed. AI has learned from us how to write—not the other way around.

@justcastellon People were mad on TikTok about Sanderson's The Way of Kings using AI because of the em dash. Then people pointed out it was written 10+ years before AI. Lol. We are doomed.

There’s this never-ending debate about whether em dashes, semicolons, and colons have become signs of AI writing. As a result, many of us writers have stopped using them—swapping them for commas or reshaping sharp, effective sentences into something blander—to avoid suspicion. But AI was trained on the best of us. On millions of published works by real authors. It learned from our voices, our rhythms, our punctuation. And now we’re acting as if those marks somehow belong to machines. They don’t. Those tools were ours long before AI existed. Our teachers taught us how and when to use them, years before anyone imagined generative AI. So let’s take them back. Let’s use the full range of language with confidence. The em dash, the semicolon, the colon—they’re not signals of artificiality. They’re signs of craft. #WritingCommunity #writerslife

@justcastellon Amen!

@waldenpod A few weeks ago, I ran a book I wrote 15 yrs ago through an AI detector. Score: 88% AI-written. Impossible, of course. But it reinforces something: our books—and for me, also 1000s of news articles, feature pieces, and columns—helped train the machines. I’m not changing my style.

You have no idea how much I resent AI for completely ruining a perfectly good sentence structure: "It's not just x – it's y." You cannot write that anymore. Everyone will assume it's AI or get derailed wondering if it's AI. We've been robbed of an entire sentence form.