Critical ThinkingWhen a character's argument is built on a fallacy, readers feel it even when they cannot name it, the speech rings hollow, the nonfiction loses credibility, the character starts to sound manipulative. Spotting fallacies makes you better in both directions:…
CopyrightCopyright is not abstract legal theory when you have signed agreements on 54+ ghostwriting projects. It is the framework I work inside every single day. Here is what writers actually need to understand about who owns their words, what fair…
Writing LessonsEvery writer makes mistakes; I have published 113 books and still make them. The difference between a working writer and someone who only talks about it is what you do next. Here are the mistakes I see most often from…
FictionMost writers build worlds backward, drawing maps and inventing languages before they have a story, then wonder why it all feels like a museum exhibit. World building is structure, not decoration. Here is how to build a place through geography,…
Writing LessonsWriting 10,000 words in a day sounds impossible until you see the machinery behind it. I do it on top of ghostwriting, blogging, and promotion, and the secret is not talent or typing speed. It is a system of goals,…
FictionIt took me decades and 113+ books to learn the lesson that changed how I write: stop overthinking. The worst thing I can do starting a project is construct it intellectually before I feel my way in. Here is why…
Book CoachSome clients hire me to write the whole book; others want to write it themselves and just need someone who has done it before walking beside them. That second path is coaching. Here is what it actually looks like session…
CopyrightThe AI copyright debate everyone has, can a machine be an author, is the wrong one. It has almost nothing to do with the issues you will actually hit using AI tools. Drawing on daily use across ghostwriting and fiction,…
Artificial IntelligenceAI can spit out a book-length manuscript in minutes, and the internet is full of people who wrote a book in a weekend with ChatGPT. The output exists; whether anyone will care is another matter. The machine predicts likely next…
About RichardIn late 2013 I walked away from twenty years as Director of Computer Operations at Trader Joe's, overworked and trading my health for a job that had stopped giving back. I had savings and a dream I had carried since…
FictionAn allegory dies the instant a reader catches it being an allegory, the moment they think this stands for that and switch from reading to decoding. Then the story becomes a lecture with a plot. The fix is a surface…
FictionThe most important rule of killing a character is that the death has to be earned, and it is the rule writers break most often. Pile on the emotional score all you want; an unearned death still reads as cheap.…
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