Category: Writing
The Ethics of Writing While Reading
All writers live by three fundamental rules—show don’t tell—don’t plagiarize—keep reading. The...
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The Ethics of Writing While Thinking
Huh? Don’t all writers think while they are writing? Is there an ethical rule for not thinking...
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The Ethics of Writing About Space Hurricanes
Spoiler Alert—This is not just about weather. It’s about the latest thing in weather—space...
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The Ethics of Writing Plot Plans
A plot plan is one way to write a novel. It’s not the “plot plan” that architects write to show...
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The Ethics of Writing About Trials
In 2018, I wrote a blog titled, “When Truth Isn’t Truth.” It was about the former president’s...
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The Ethics of Writing About War
War fascinates, denigrates, and populates. Its core appeal and its turnoff is violence. It is...
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The Ethics of Writing in Voice
Fiction writers use the term “voice” differently than journalists, lawyers, physicians, or...
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Is Trump Our Ex-President or Our Former President?
The prefix “ex” is a preposition and means “out of,” “from,” and hence “utterly,” “thoroughly,”...
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The Ethics of Writing Cryptomnesia
Cryptomnesia. That’s a mouthful to say, dicey to write, and virtually unrecognizable in the...
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The Ethics of Writing Ambiguously On Purpose
We all do it—writers everywhere, every day. We write ambiguously. Mostly we do it in draft, by...
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The Ethics of Writing Revelations
We write for myriad reasons—to inform, explain, enhance, enchant, admit, deny, incite, encourage,...
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The Ethics of Metaethics (Part Two)
In Part I of this furtive effort to tiptoe into the 21st Century notion of Metaethics and the...
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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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