Writer · Adjunct Professor · Louisville, KY

EricShay Howard

I write personal essays and teach writing, composition, business, and IT at universities around Louisville. I also build software with AI, and I document those projects here.

This fall, I'm writing for journals,my website, first.

Read the essays See the projectsWatch on YouTube
Eric Shay Howard smiling outdoors in a dark blazer and light blue shirt, trees glowing behind him.
semester load: full

How each essay is made

Every essay says how it was made

How I use AI →
01

Directed drafting

I talk it through. Claude drafts, and I direct the revisions until it says what I mean.
Sentences: mostly Claude's02

Draft-first

I write the draft. Claude reads it and gives feedback, and I revise.
Sentences: mostly mine03

Co-writing

We trade passages. I write a section, Claude drafts the next, and we revise each other's.
Sentences: a blend04

Solo

I write and revise it myself. No AI involved.
Sentences: all mine

Personal essays

Recent writing

All essays →
  1. How I Use AI, and Why I'm Publishing Here

    What I wrote, what Claude wrote, and who made the decisions. How each essay on this site is made, and why I'm stepping back from journals for now.

    Sep 28, 2026 · 3 min read#thoughts

Projects

Things I'm making

All projects →
Webactive

This website

I moved off Squarespace and rebuilt my site with Claude Code, partly to finally learn how programming and GitHub actually work.

Read more →

On YouTube

Watch along

Videos on writing, teaching, and whatever I'm thinking about this week.

@weirdericshayhoward

About

An MFA in Creative Writing, an MBA, and four years in IT at a law firm. Now I build and teach courses across three university systems and write here.

More about me →