fact or fiction
Is it a fact or is it merely fiction? Fact or Fiction explores the lesser known truths in the corporate culture of Journal.
I Let AI Run My Life For A Week
No decisions. No second-guessing. Just me, doing whatever the machine told me to do. It started as a joke. I was scrolling through my notes app one night, looking at a to-do list I hadn't touched in three days, and I thought — what if I just stopped deciding things for myself? What if, for one week, every choice I made — what to eat, how to work, what to write, even how to spend my evenings — came from AI instead of from me?
By Zohan Khan2 months ago in Journal
5 Websites That Actually Pay Writers Well in 2026 (I Checked Every Payout Myself)
I spent an embarrassing number of hours this month doing something most writers never bother to do: I actually went and checked. Not "someone on Reddit said," not "a 2022 blog post claimed" — I dug into current contributor guidelines, payment pages, and traffic data for five sites that regularly get recommended to writers looking to earn something real from their words. A couple of the numbers I found matched what's commonly repeated online. A couple didn't, and one platform has quietly shrunk so much that I don't think it belongs on most "best paying sites" lists anymore, even though it still gets recommended constantly.
By Zohan Khan2 months ago in Journal
Put through the wringer
Yesterday evening, my younger son arrived home from his ten-hour shift as a car wash attendant, climbed the stairs to his room, and returned with an armload of clothes. I groaned, "Don't just dump those on the floor of the bathroom (and laundry room)."
By Mack D. Ames3 months ago in Journal
10 Websites That Actually Pay Writers (I Checked Them All)
I still remember the first time I searched "how to make money writing online." I got a hundred blog posts, all saying the same five names, and none of them told me what it actually feels like to use these sites. So I decided to write the guide I wish someone had given me.
By Zohan Khan3 months ago in Journal
Baypointe: A Community By the Reservoir
Writer’s Comment: Reflections on a Freelance Project (and Finding the Original Copies) More than a decade ago, I was hired by a site to create mini-blurbs about numerous communities. It was for a real estate project and was meant to highlight a community within a metropolitan area. In many cases, these were either towns or districts within a suburban city. In some cases, they were merely a collection of residential streets.
By Dean Traylor3 months ago in Journal
