Gravitas: Discover what it is, who appreciates it, and why introverts often have an edge in displaying it. www.introvertupthink.com/p/gravitas
Marcia Yudkin
@marciayudkin.bsky.social
Introvert Advocate, Former Marketing Mogul, Reader Extraordinaire hanging out in Western Mass and Maui. 200+ posts at https://www.introvertupthink.com
New essay: "Subtraction" in iExile. You may hate this point of view - it's certainly not for everyone. iexile.com/writing/subt...
A man hawking a fact-checking AI product emailed me and spelled my name wrong. Ah, the irony!
Authors Guild: AI detectors "cannot distinguish between a human writer who has mastered the craft and a machine that has learned to imitate it." Learn why: authorsguild.org/news/can-ai-...
Can AI Detectors Be Trusted? The Authors Guild Put Five of Them to the Test - The Authors Guild
As AI use by authors has expanded from research and brainstorming to generating entire books, publishers, agents, and readers are growing suspicious of AI-generated content—and online markets are alre...
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According to the July/August issue of WIRED, AI search engines provide wrong answers from 45 to 60 % of the time. Searcher beware! www.wired.com/story/fact-c...
AI Just Isn’t Right
Can AI do fact-checking? A WIRED fact-checker fact-checks.
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Thoughts on not-for-everyone literary offerings: "The 53rd Time Was the Charm" in LitMag News today. litmagnews.substack.com/p/the-53rd-t...
Out on BULL today, some cheeky wisdom from my winter in Maui: mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas... @mrbullbull.bsky.social
Surprising advice on book covers from a company that studied what worked best for their 20,000+ books. kindlepreneur.com/book-cover-d...
Book Cover Design Lessons Learned from 20,000 Self-Published Books | Kindlepreneur
Learn what makes a book cover sell, how to spot design trends in your genre, and what to give your designer before creating your next cover.
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Some good news about the advantages writers have (at least so far) over AI: on.substack.com/p/the-indepe...
The independent writer’s advantage in the age of AI
Jasmine Sun on why secrets, live presence, and a distinct voice matter more than ever in an AI-saturated world, and what independent creators need to build careers that machines can't replace
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My controversial stance on "going vulnerable" to endear yourself to others, in business or personal life: www.introvertupthink.com/p/vulnerabil...
New short story of mine, "Muted," just published in Green Silk Journal: www.thegsj.com/stories-1-.h...
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Her Day in Court | Nonfiction by Marcia Yudkin
I sat tensely in the witness box, my vision and hearing narrowed to a rectangle that ran from me to the judge. The rest of the courtroom, including my husband leaning forward on the edge of his seat i...
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Never, never use AI for fact-checking! Here's a case study in why: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/b...
Book on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I.
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New micro story, "Baggage," out in Tiny Molecules today. It was written in Smokelong's March Marathon this year. www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twent... @smokelong.bsky.social @tinymolecules.bsky.social
Intelligent introverts are rightly skeptical of the news media and health experts. Here's why: www.introvertupthink.com/p/social-ties
"...the remarkable growth of the fiction market over the last ten years": I did not realize that! It's good news, and surprising given what we all hear about declining attention spans. dearheadofmine.substack.com/p/the-most-i...
The Most Important Book of Every Year This Decade PART I
2016-2019
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My short story, "Outliers," appears in Turn & Work today. Thanks to @emilyrinkema.bsky.social for alerting me to this publication! www.turnandwork.com/guest-post/o...
Your mind works differently from others'. Learn why and how to embrace its particularities. www.themindfulword.org/understand-y...
Just published: "Just Looking" - an essay on the dynamics of seeing and being seen. hollowandsky.org/just-looking...
What is solitude, really? Reflections about a memoir by a Canadian fire lookout. www.introvertupthink.com/p/lookout
Five prose poems by me about wild New England: www.themackinaw.net/the-mackinaw...
Marcia Yudkin
All Hail the Conductor Spring nights ring first with the shrill cacophony of the peepers, nature’s orchestra warming up in the highest registers. Weeks later, the bullfrogs enter, deep bass...
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For my Substack, Introvert UpThink, I'm soliciting personal essays about being an introvert or dealing with one at home, at work or in the community. See the first reader essay and guidelines: www.introvertupthink.com/p/reader-sto...
Reader Stories 1: The Introverted Students’ Reward
by Michael Smith
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The moral tension over being solicited for a stranger's GoFundMe campaign: www.eclectica.org/v30n1/yudkin...
Hi, Cousin!—Nonfiction by Marcia Yudkin—Eclectica Magazine v30n1
Nonfiction by Marcia Yudkin, Eclectica Magazine v30n1
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Where Plato is considered too controversial to teach, are students truly getting education? www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/u...
Texas A&M, Under New Curriculum Limits, Warns Professor Not to Teach Plato
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A substantive analysis of what happens when government attempts to control the arts. www.salon.com/2026/01/01/t...
Trump’s cultural coup is doomed to fail
Artists are protesting Trump's Kennedy Center takeover — and creating art in defiance of his repression
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What was it that was following me on that road through the woods? A true tale published in Halfway Down the Stairs: halfwaydownthestairs.net/2025/12/01/o...
On the Spooky Road, by Marcia Yudkin
One quarter of the way into my five-mile walk, a sensation prickled along my shoulders and back: Something was following me. I peered around. On the curvy pavement between leafy trees, with birds c…
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What I experienced as a philosophy graduate student at Cornell in the 1970s: philosophynow.org/issues/171/W...
What Women? | Issue 171 | Philosophy Now
Marcia Yudkin remembers almost choking at Cornell.
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