Norns - AI As Tools and Helpers in Writing
January 25, 2026
by Darrell Breeden

When I wrote the Fifth Anomaly, I came to the brutal realization that writing it, paying an editor, and then implementing those changes was just the beginning. I started building Norns as a way to minimize a lot of those later friction points for authors leveraging AI in a way that:

  • It accommodates your writing style as an …
Norns and Context Management
January 19, 2026
by Darrell Breeden

Norns

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We first have to talk about Norns and what it is. It’s a SaaS I’m building to prove out a theory of mine that the workflow I used with Claude (specifically Claude Code) could be agentic in nature, and cheaper in that fashion.

My approach with writing as mentioned in my other articles is very much about …

Transmedia Marketing - Unexpected Successes
January 11, 2026

Transwhat?

So to start of, we probably need to talk about transmedia literature. With most books, the writing is the real content. The only content in most cases. “The Fifth Anomaly: A Threshold Chronicle” is far from that.

While the book is the primary point of interest for the reader, there are other components to …

Typesetting is hard
January 2, 2026
by Darrell Breeden

Typesetting is Hard

Well to clarify, for most writers it’s probably not. But my book probably has several considerations that most people don’t for literary formatting:

  • CJK Font Dependency: I use a lot of NOTO China/Japan/Korea fonts for Yomi’s text
  • Full Color Unicode Emojis: Because a lot of the book …
My Approach to AI Assisted Writing
December 21, 2025
by Darrell Breeden

AI Assisted Writing

First off, I understand that this is going to trigger some people, but I use AI (very specifically Anthropic’s Claude Code Opus 4.5) in my writing endeavors.

Now this apparently requires some clarification as using “AI” in the same sentence as “writing” causes some people’s …

Reddit Seems to Suck
December 21, 2025
by Darrell Breeden

Reddit and The Anonymous Mod Army

So I recently created a post in r/selfpublishing to cover a lot of the things I learned about publishing and how I write (since markdown is not really common in this industry).

It was meant as a post mortem, or an evaluation of what went well / didn’t go well with the process procedurally, …