Essays
Notes, fieldwork, and longer arguments on wifi horror, consent, and the technologies shaping near-future life.
Swift-Footed Achilles Is Sitting Down
26 July 2026Module 1 Origins: Orality, Epic, and the Deep History of Narrative The Fieldnotes These are the long-form Fieldnotes for Module 1 of my storytelling curriculum, one essay per section. Each stands on its own. Read in order, they trace how stories worked as an oral technology, and what that inheritance leaves for a write
THE HOST - PART 1: THE CONSULTATION
22 July 2026Subscribe now STORY 2 OF THE SERIAL PORT SEASON 1 ──────── ◇ ──────── Continuity Year 45 She had always liked the widowers who came early. The early ones were the ones who had decided. The widower for the Thursday afternoon arrived early. She watched him from the kitchen window. He stopped at the gate. He found her nam
The Word That Vanishes As You Say It
21 July 2026Module 1 Origins: Orality, Epic, and the Deep History of Narrative The Fieldnotes These are the long-form Fieldnotes for Module 1 of my storytelling curriculum, one essay per section. Each stands on its own. Read in order, they trace how stories worked as an oral technology, and what that inheritance leaves for a write
The Map and the Legend
19 July 2026Subscribe now Fieldnote 07: My personal storytelling curriculum. I’ve been building and following an in-depth modular course on the history and structure of storytelling. These Fieldnotes are the long-form supplements, one essay per section, written to stand on their own. This is Section 7, the last of the orientation
The Lens and the Cage
17 July 2026Fieldnote 06: My personal storytelling curriculum. How do you read a theory without being captured by it? The Continuity Constellation is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. To show the method rather than describe it, I am going to take
Home-brand apocalypse
15 July 2026Last time I wrote about Cyberbeige , but where do we go now? Welcome to the home-brand apocalypse. Subscribe now ──────── ◇ ──────── In 1985, in the foreword to Amusing Ourselves to Death , Neil Postman called a winner between two famous warnings. Orwell feared the boot: the state that bans the book and watches while y
The Annal and the Story
14 July 2026Subscribe now Fieldnote 05: My personal storytelling curriculum. I’ve been building and following an in-depth modular course on the history and structure of storytelling. This is Section 5 of the orientation module, and it turns the previous one inside out. Section 4 showed that we cannot stop telling stories. This one
LIVE - PART 2: THE DEAL ENTERING VIEW
14 July 2026Lost? Start with Part 1 Subscribe now Authors Note: Live is one continuous livestream of an influencer turned cult leader. Four things share your screen: Plain text is the leader, talking to the camera. [1,247 watching] = view count updating 21:14 [glow_alyssa] : The live chat, scrolling while she talks. [Ambient actio
Cyberbeige: dystopia without the punk
30 June 2026Photo by Jezael Melgoza on Unsplash Subscribe now ──────── ◇ ──────── One thing science fiction always seems to get wrong is just how numbing dystopia really is. William Gibson had a novel more or less finished around 2016. Then the US election happened and he threw the timeline out. He told an interviewer his whole se
You Wake Mid-Sentence
14 June 2026Fieldnote 04: My personal storytelling curriculum. I’ve been building and following an in-depth modular course on the history and structure of storytelling. These Fieldnotes are the long-form supplements, one essay per section, written to stand on their own. This is Section 4 of the orientation module, and it asks the
The Same Moment, Twice
12 June 2026This is Section 3 of the orientation module, and it takes apart the first piece of craft advice anyone ever gives you: What is the real difference between showing and telling, and why is "show, don't tell" so often wrong? To make the difference visible, I am going to give you the same small moment twice, once shown and once told.
The Order I'm Telling You This In
8 June 2026Fieldnote 02:Moduel 0 - Story vs Discourse I’ve been building and following an in-depth modular course on the history and structure of storytelling. Check it out at my author site (ajwiadrowski.com ). These Fieldnotes are the long-form supplements, one essay per section, written to stand on their own. This is Sec
The King Died, and Then the Queen Died
5 June 2026Fieldnote 01: My personal storytelling curriculum. Okay, I have something else to talk about. I’ve been building myself a deep, self-directed course on the history and structure of storytelling, working through it module by module. This Fieldnote is the first of these long-form supplements: one essay per question
The Fictional Dr Heart
27 May 2026CONTINUITY_CONSTELLATION/TCP:01_TCM/PRELUDE/THE_FICTIONAL_DR_HEA RT Continuity Year 0 ──────── ◇ ──────── The Fictional Dr Heart The seat was in row F, on the aisle. She had taken it twenty minutes early because the ro
Edison’s Candle: An AI Allegory
26 May 2026Subscribe now WORKSHOP · ESSAY 02 A. J. Wiadrowski · 26 May 2026 There is a structure forming in creative work right now. AI floods the free tier. Human craft retreats behind paywalls. The readers who can pay get the human work. The readers who cannot pay get the AI version. Stock photography is already there
Why we are making the wrong argument about AI, shown through four ways creatives can use AI
14 May 2026WORKSHOP · ESSAY 01 A. J. Wiadrowski · 14 May 2026 I’m almost 40. I grew up without the internet. I started high school on dial-up and graduated four years later with broadband. The Matrix came out when I was twelve and changed my perspective on sci-fi forever. I watched the transition from MySpace to F