Focused lessons on specific writing skills, each targeting a particular aspect of craft. From structuring narratives to creating compelling characters to mastering dialogue, these lessons provide actionable instruction drawn from professional writing experience across both fiction and nonfiction.
GhostwritingAlmost every author who starts a book stalls at chapter 3, and the reasons are predictable while the fixes are specific. Here are the four root causes, structure, voice, motivation, and expertise, and the intervention each one actually needs. Most…
Writing LessonsFrom the IBM Selectric to whatever we call today's machines, the tools kept changing while one truth held: your writing space governs your output. Here is the converted dining room where 100-plus books got written, the books, the butterflies, the…
Writing LessonsWriter's block is not staring at a blank page; that is just starting. The real thing is wanting to write and being unable to keep anything you produce, drafting and deleting in circles. Here is what block actually is, why…
Writing LessonsA writing professor once told me, to my face, that I would never be any good. I believed him for decades, and it kept me from writing far longer than I want to admit. The voice never fully shuts up,…
Writing LessonsRunning at 12,000 words a day has a price: a crash that can flatten you for days when you misjudge it. Most burnout advice treats it as a willpower problem, which it is not. It is structural, and it has…
Thought LeadershipThe smartest leaders I work with are often the worst communicators, and it is no accident: they built expertise so deep they forgot how to explain it to anyone who lacks it. They know everything and cannot make you care.…
Writing LessonsI am writing ten books at once: five novels in progress, plus client work, coaching, and handbooks, producing up to 12,000 words on a typical day. I also have autism and ADHD together, the combination most people assume would make…
MemoirsSet a writing resolution in January and you have likely broken it by March, because resolutions are gym memberships in disguise, all enthusiasm and no structure. The fix is not more willpower; it is goals instead of resolutions. Here is…
Writing LessonsFor years I would not submit my fiction anywhere, not because the work was not ready but because the thought of someone judging it triggered a physical reaction I could not reason past. My chest would tighten and I would…
WritingThree hours arguing with a Commodore 64 about where to put a brass lantern, and I was not mad, I was impressed: Zork understood English, remembered my moves, and responded like it was alive. Text adventures were collaborative fiction; SimCity…
Writing Lessons113+ books, 54+ ghostwriting projects, 12,000 words on a good day, and still some mornings a voice says I have no idea what I'm doing. It has been there through every book, including one that raised $30 million for a…
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…
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