FictionFebruary 10, 2026
Writers love picking a team: plotter, pantser, or plantser. With ADHD, I outline everything, not on principle but because it is the only way I actually finish a book. Here is what happens when writers skip the outline, and how…
Book MarketingFebruary 10, 2026
WeWork rented desks. Its IPO prospectus claimed to elevate the world's consciousness. Scott Galloway called that gap yogababble, and the term stuck because everyone had seen it. The same inflation creeps into books when clients reach for credentials they have…
GhostwritingFebruary 10, 2026
Why pay so much when they are just typing up my ideas? It is the most common assumption about ghostwriting, and the most wrong. The work is research, fact-checking, voice matching, mid-project pivots, and relentless collaboration, not transcription. After 54+…
MemoirsFebruary 10, 2026
My grandfather never spoke about the war, three years a prisoner, marched through Manila, held in Japanese camps, not at dinner, not when asked directly. It stayed locked inside for decades, until one day I asked the right question and…
Artificial IntelligenceFebruary 10, 2026
AI writing tools are not going away. The question is not whether to use AI, but whether you understand what it does well, what it does badly, and where it gets you into trouble. Here is the honest breakdown, and…
MemoirsFebruary 10, 2026
Sit people with complicated histories around a table with too much food and no easy exit, and wait. Someone says the wrong thing, someone drinks too much, someone raises the forbidden subject, and every buried family tension surfaces at once.…
BusinessFebruary 10, 2026
Grammar checkers earn their keep on typos. But across hundreds of projects I have watched Grammarly and ProWritingAid flatten voice, miscall commas, and nudge every writer toward the same forgettable middle. Here is exactly where they help, where they quietly…
Artificial IntelligenceFebruary 10, 2026
MIT tracked 54 brains for four months as people wrote essays, and the ChatGPT group came out worst, weakest neural connectivity, poorest memory, growing dependency, many unable to quote their own writing minutes later. It is not peer-reviewed yet, but…
Artificial IntelligenceFebruary 10, 2026
Why not just write my book with AI? I hear it weekly from CEOs dazzled by ChatGPT's word count. The answer never changes: AI has no heart, the prose it makes is soulless, and soulless writing builds no authority at…
GhostwritingFebruary 10, 2026
The creative side of ghostwriting gets all the attention, but the projects that go smoothly are the ones where the business was settled before the first interview. Scope, payment, expectations: get those clear up front and everything else works. Here…
BusinessFebruary 10, 2026
Weeks of prep, technical diagrams, airtight projections, a proposal to save millions, and halfway through my first slide the CEO raised a hand and ended it in eight words. I knew the systems cold and lost the room anyway. The…
GhostwritingFebruary 10, 2026
One client critiqued every sentence in real time, eight hours a day, until a quibble over and versus but became a two-hour standoff. At $175 an hour the money was real, but so was the strain. Across fifty-plus projects I…
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