Handouts · 7
- Autoethnography
- The Personal Essay: A "Try"
- Digital Academic Narrative
- Digital Genre Analysis
- Digital Writer Self-Portrait
- Composition Studies Synthesis Posts
- Standing Challenges in Writing
Writer · Adjunct Professor · Louisville, KY
EricShay Howard
I write personal essays, build software with AI, and teach writing, business, and IT.
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Essay no. 04
I Made A Weird Game that You Can Play or Watch
Since I'm not submitting to literary journals this semester while I figure out AI and my English Composition curriculum, I've been tinkering with AI-use.
3 min read
Game · Project 3
Charterbound: Into the Margins
A game you can play or watch. Play it as an action-adventure about a bookbinder in a kingdom whose words are fading, or sit back and watch five towns full of people live their lives. This page is also its guide to playing.
Software · Project 2
A strategy game and training simulator for writing program administration. You get three years at the desk of a fictional first-year writing program.
Essay no. 03
Let the Record Build: Revision, Reflection, and AI
Writing or creating in public usually means letting people see the process along with the product: the drafts, the missteps, the number of times you’ve changed your mind.
4 min read
Personal essays
Things I've written
- 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.
- I Made A Weird Game that You Can Play or Watch
Since I'm not submitting to literary journals this semester while I figure out AI and my English Composition curriculum, I've been tinkering with AI-use.
- Let the Record Build: Revision, Reflection, and AI
Writing or creating in public usually means letting people see the process along with the product: the drafts, the missteps, the number of times you’ve changed your mind.
- The New Spiritual Literacy Practices of A Now Only Somewhat Atheist Adjunct Professor After An Alien Appeared by His Bed
I woke up in the middle of the night in the summer of 2026 to a gray alien standing by my bed.
How each essay is made
Every essay says how it was made
Directed drafting
I talk it through. Claude drafts, and I direct the revisions until it says what I mean.
Sentences: mostly Claude'sDraft-first
I write the draft. Over several rounds, Claude gives substantial feedback and I revise.
Sentences: mostly mineNo essays yet
Co-writing
We trade passages. I write a section, Claude drafts the next, and we revise each other's.
Sentences: a blendSolo
I write and revise it myself. None of my own words on the page come from AI.
Sentences: all mineStet · A column
Things I'm editing
Projects
Things I'm making
Project 3 · Gameactive
Charterbound: Into the Margins
A game you can play or watch. Play it as an action-adventure about a bookbinder in a kingdom whose words are fading, or sit back and watch five towns full of people live their lives. This page is also its guide to playing.
Read more →Project 2 · SoftwareactiveWPA Desk
A strategy game and training simulator for writing program administration. You get three years at the desk of a fictional first-year writing program.
Read more →Project 1 · WebactiveThis 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 X
Follow along
Short thoughts, new essays, and whatever I'm thinking about this week.
@ericshayhowardOn YouTube
Watch along
Videos on writing and teaching. On pause while I rethink the channel.
@weirdericshayhowardAbout
An MFA in Creative Writing, an MBA, and four years in IT at a law firm. Now I build and teach courses across three colleges and universities and write here.
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