Advice
Preservation as an Act of Care
Care is usually associated with people, not with ideas. It brings to mind attentiveness, patience, protection, and responsibility toward something fragile. Meaning rarely enters that picture. Thoughts are assumed to be abundant, replaceable, and endlessly renewable. If one is lost, another will come. This assumption feels practical, but it is wrong in a quiet and costly way. Some meanings are not interchangeable. Some insights arrive only once, shaped by a particular moment, a particular season, or a particular convergence of experience that will never repeat in the same form.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast7 months ago in Writers
Mother's That Blew My Mind
I woke up on Tuesday and it's always where I always play BTS. The only reason is that I don't watch much nor watch alot of stuff that makes me wanna watch it bcecause of how it's set it up and not worth to watch until now. These two things I watched is what made me say this is really good.
By Erica Williams7 months ago in Writers
Dynamic Pricing in Retail: How Data Scraping Drives Revenue Growth
In the fast-paced world of retail, staying ahead of the competition is no easy feat. Pricing is one of the most crucial aspects that can determine a brand’s success. But here's the thing: static pricing is a thing of the past. Dynamic pricing—a strategy where prices fluctuate in real-time based on various factors—is rapidly becoming the norm. The question is: how can retailers effectively implement dynamic pricing? The answer lies in data scraping.
By Retail Gators7 months ago in Writers
How Editing Changes the “AI Score” More Than Writing
The first time I saw this happen, the draft itself was ordinary. A student wrote it in her own voice, with the usual uneven rhythm people have when they are trying to explain something they actually understand. Then she edited it for an hour. She cleaned every sentence, trimmed every extra word, made the transitions smoother, and ran the whole thing through a detector. The score went up.
By Karen Covey7 months ago in Writers
How Retail Price Monitoring Helps Brands Increase Profit Margins in 2026
In today’s retail environment, pricing is no longer a static decision—it’s a moving target. What worked yesterday might cost you sales today. With competitors adjusting prices in real time and customers becoming more price-sensitive than ever, brands can’t afford to rely on guesswork anymore.
By Retail Gators7 months ago in Writers
Inside The Mind Of The Writers
Writing as a hobby becomes something more. It can become an infectious disease, without a cure. As it happens, it came to me during an infectious disease outbreak, and initially, there was no cure. Hell, there was no vaccine, there was no answer, and the world literally fell to pieces that year.
By Jason Morton7 months ago in Writers
Text and Subtext
Haiku of Now challenge results were released on Friday. Haiku challenges are easy winners’ page reads, but good grief, the judges had to slog through over 1300, minus the ones that were disqualified for not adhering. A couple of mine probably fell into that pile—if you read beyond the blurb, it was a very specific challenge—no past, no reflection, no past tense, no interpretation—just a lived-in moment. Some of mine reflected or interpreted, may have even had a past tense verb somewhere.
By Harper Lewis 7 months ago in Writers
Have you ever grieved someone who's still alive?
I recently had a falling out with my high school best friend of 15+ years. To be honest I already felt like I was grieving for someone I hadn’t quite lost yet. The days, weeks, months had gone by with no communication or check ins, I knew something was up. They eventually told me they think we are on different paths in life. I know people can outgrow each other; I understand that completely. I think it’s actually realistic to believe not everyone you went to school with or knew when you were younger is going to be in your life in your 20s, 30s and beyond. Though that thought doesn’t make the healing easier.
By soft static7 months ago in Writers
