Category: Writing
The Ethics of Writing Political Redistricting Maps
A redistricting map is historically interesting, politically significant, and ethically...
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The Ethics of Sharing Social Media Content
Arguably, creating social media content by professional writers is a job for machine-gun writers...
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The Ethics of Writing To Yourself
Many people write about their hopes, experiences, doubts, joys, and hidden faults. That kind of...
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The Ethics of Writing About Good Cops
“Begin at the beginning,” the King said, very gravely, “and go on till you come to the...
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The Ethics of Writing About Election Ethics
There is much ado and boo-who about election ethics these days. As a nation we are moribund...
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The Ethics of Writing Story
Is there an ethics of writing story? Yes, the word is plural; “ethic” is singular. A story can be...
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The Ethics of Writing Mythopoeia, Bitpunk, Cli-Fi, and Other Genre Wannabees
COVID-19 descended in 2020, writers hid out, sanitized their computers, wrote masked, and are...
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The Ethics of Writing About UFO’s
The first ethical imperative when writing about UFO’s is clarity. For writers, clarity is a...
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Conflicts of Interest For Authors & Publishers
Lawyers have exhaustive and complicated rules regarding conflicts of interests. I know because I...
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The Ethics of Writing Literary Fiction v. Writing Genre Fiction
At first blush, there would not seem to be different ethical norms in one versus the other. But on...
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The Ethics of Writing Historical Fiction—Part Three
I wrote a blog on August 31, 2018 titled “Is Historical Fiction Ethical—Part One.” Three...
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The Ethics of Writing Conspiracy Theories
Let’s say you’re a bored writer, suffering from writer’s block, dehydrated, left alone in dark...
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About Gary L. Stuart
I am an author and a part-time lawyer with a focus on ethics and professional discipline. I teach creative writing and ethics to law students at Arizona State University. Read my bio.
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