Willpower won't make you write. Hyperfocus will. After 113+ books and 54+ ghostwritten books, here's how to set up the conditions that let your brain lock in and produce.
Both claims get made loudly and neither survives contact with the evidence. What has changed, what has not changed at all, and where the honest disagreement sits once the shouting stops.
Milton reached Category 5 with 155 mph winds. Drawing on decades of disasters, here is my complete preparation routine and why pets belong at the center.
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