HeyJaredThe Desk in the Lantern Room
On the desk are The Keeper's Logbook, a chronicle of significant life events, and a typewriter with a stack of fictional stories next to it.
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- Sep 27, 2026
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My Writing Mojo (opens the original)
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Welcome to The Desk in the Lantern Room. It’s time to make another entry in the Keeper’s Logbook to see what I’ve been up to lately and why so little of it seems to include writing.I recently recalled the lyrics of a song I wrote several years ago called “Summer’s Wake.” Here’s the first line:“Another summer come and gone, how it passes so easy.”I have to admit, I penned rather apt words there, didn’t I? So easy. I won’t claim that Summer didn’t have
How I Use AI in My Writing (opens the original)
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Welcome to The Desk in the Lantern Room. I don’t know what the hell Artificial Intelligence has to do with a lighthouse, and I don’t know how it got here, but apparently we have to talk about it. So, let’s.Recently, I was granted a Claude license by my employer after taking a mandatory course on using AI and attending the follow-up classroom session. When I pulled the program window up for the first time, curious to see what it looked like, I was greeted with a blank screen displaying the words,
The Wheel: One Year Later (opens the original)
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Welcome to The Desk in the Lantern Room. It’s time to make another entry in the Keeper’s Logbook to see what’s been up lately and reflect on one year since I “published” my first major story, The Wheel, here on Substack.What’s up?Well, all sorts of things, it turns out. What is not up? WRITING. I’m excited to write this post off the dome—pantsing the hell out of it as I go—and not second-guessing every second word I type. I’m in quite the funk when it comes t
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