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Writing

All your writing: essays, the books and the craft. Capture ideas, open any document to edit, and see what's waiting and what's owed.

Capture and staging 2 staged · 0 approved

Write or speak while your hands are busy. Your words are kept exactly as they come out. Send them to a new piece, or into a section of any document. Approve a capture and Claude takes it from there, tidying only grammar and false starts.

Capture K-02 · goes into "Blog", section "Oiling" · topic: Blog post staged 2026-01-15
Walnut drinks the first coat. Wait a full day before the second one.
Capture K-01 · goes into "Spoon carving guide", section "Chapter 4" · topic: Book staged 2026-01-15
Keep the hook knife sharper than you think you need. A dull one tears the grain and you fight it the whole way.
✦ Build an essay or post from my words
Your plug-in skill longform-essay-multiplatform: sources your own words, fact-checks every claim, and cuts it for each platform. Say which capture, answer or document to build from. The draft comes to your Inbox.
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Drafts waiting on you

Draft W-01 Blog: What I learned oiling my first walnut piece
Claude · public date 2026-10-07 · waiting
✦ Finish or cut it for each platform
Your plug-in skill longform-essay-multiplatform: checks the facts, keeps only your words, and cuts this draft for each platform. It gets: draft W-01: Blog: What I learned oiling my first walnut piece
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Source: Built from Sam's stated positions · as of 2026-01-15STALE
Draft W-02 Essay: Why I still make spoons by hand
Claude · public date 2026-10-21 · waiting
✦ Finish or cut it for each platform
Your plug-in skill longform-essay-multiplatform: checks the facts, keeps only your words, and cuts this draft for each platform. It gets: draft W-02: Essay: Why I still make spoons by hand
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Source: Built from Sam's stated positions · as of 2026-01-15STALE
Draft W-03 Newsletter: January at the bench
Kimi · public date 2026-10-30 · sent back
✦ Finish or cut it for each platform
Your plug-in skill longform-essay-multiplatform: checks the facts, keeps only your words, and cuts this draft for each platform. It gets: draft W-03: Newsletter: January at the bench
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Source: Example: sent back with a reason · as of 2026-01-15STALE

Questions you owe (your positions)

Pieces are built only from positions you have stated; where there is no stated position, nothing can be built. Your answer is saved word for word and the piece is stitched from it. (example ledger A2 (your 10 Sep rule))

Question P-1 · for the blog slot on 2026-10-09 · waiting

Do you oil the inside of a spoon bowl, or leave it raw?

Answer this

Question P-2 · for the blog slot on 2026-10-14 · answered 2026-01-14

What is the one tool a beginner should buy first?

Your answer: A good straight knife, before anything else.

Publishing rhythm

WhatWhoStateSource

Library: open any of your writings

0 documents in Books and Longform, Listing Copy and Publishing Plans. "Open to edit" opens it in Google Docs, where you can change anything. "Edit here" opens it section by section below.

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Document studio

Open now: Example document · open it in Google Docs to edit directly ↗

0 words in the document. Click a section to write in it. Your drafts save here (and in backups), and each saved change goes as an instruction to the agent on duty, who makes it in the Google Doc on their next check.

Publishing queue

What I learned oiling my first walnut piece Blog Craft
Why I still make spoons by hand Substack Craft
A month of small bench wins Blog Other

Idea: 1 · Drafting: 1 · Queued: 1 · Scheduled: 0 · Published: 0

What shipped

Figures never to print