What this is

Writingcontrol is a working notebook. It exists to make a writing life legible — to me, first; to anyone who wants to look in, second — and to give my fiction and literary-nonfiction projects a public spine.

The site is a sister to two others that share the same stem. Audiocontrol is where I write about the open-source audio tools I build for old samplers and synths. Editorialcontrol is where I write about working alongside coding agents on an editorial calendar. Writingcontrol is where I bring those habits — version control, editorial discipline, agent-assisted iteration — to bear on prose that is not technical.

The dogfood

Almost everything you read here passes through deskwork, an open-source Claude Code plugin I wrote to manage editorial calendars from inside an agent. Ideas get captured, planned, outlined, drafted, reviewed, and published as state on disk — not as inboxes or as Trello cards I'd forget. If a piece is published here, it survived that pipeline. If it isn't, it's still in there somewhere.

I use writingcontrol to find the bugs in deskwork that only show up when you push real prose through it. Every craft essay you read is also a bug report.

What's published

Projects are works in progress — a novel, an essay collection, a long piece. Each gets a hub page with the logline, the current status, and whatever excerpts or process notes have earned the right to be public.

Essays are short pieces that don't belong to a project: craft notes, occasional reportage, the kind of literary nonfiction that wants to be read as itself.

Who I am

I'm Orion Letizi. I write software during the day and prose at the edges. The voice you'll read here is mine; the agents I work with are editorial company, not authors.