AI and the Curse of Shallowness
AI writes like a brochure because it’s trained on averages. The shallowness is structural, not editable. Here’s the mechanism and the only real fix.
Craft articles covering the fundamentals of effective writing, from sentence-level technique to manuscript-level structure. Draws from experience as a professional ghostwriter with 54 books and a fiction author with dozens of novels, providing practical instruction grounded in daily professional writing practice.
AI writes like a brochure because it’s trained on averages. The shallowness is structural, not editable. Here’s the mechanism and the only real fix.
“Nobody reads anymore” is the most confident wrong thing said about books. Millennials read most, Gen Z prefers print, and your audience is still here.
You can’t fix AI prose by sprinkling humanity on top. The hollowness is structural. Here’s what’s really wrong and the only thing that fixes it.
Adopt AI without breaking your business: amplify your people, map the edge cases, keep humans in the loop, retrain instead of replace.
July 30 is Paperback Book Day. A 113-book author on why paperbacks changed publishing and why physical books still matter.
You don’t need a degree to write a business book. You need experience, solutions, and the guts to stop waiting for permission.
I need to build an audience first” is the most expensive mistake professionals make. The book builds the audience. Here’s how.
The math on your “no time” excuse doesn’t work. Here’s what your busyness is actually costing you and what thirty minutes a day could change.
World building isn’t decoration. It’s the foundation that makes magic systems, politics, and characters believable. Here’s how to build worlds that hold up.
Logical fallacies in business books, memoirs, and thought leadership content destroy credibility. Here’s what I look for in every nonfiction manuscript.
Your author blog is not a diary. It is a sales tool. How to use blog content to attract readers, build trust, and move books — for fiction and nonfiction authors.
Your book is the most powerful LinkedIn branding tool you own. How to rebuild your LinkedIn profile around your published work for maximum professional impact.
AI can generate text but it cannot write your book. A ghostwriter who has written 54 books explains what AI gets wrong and why it matters.
From interviewing my grandfather at 17 to ghostwriting 54 books, here’s how a career in technology turned into a life built around words.
ow political fiction works, why it matters, and how to write it without turning your novel into a manifesto. Examples from Asimov to The Expanse.
Practical changes that build a sustainable writing practice — from energy management and micro-habits to first draft psychology and daily output.
Logical fallacies are not just errors to avoid. They are tools for building characters whose flawed reasoning drives conflict, dialogue, and plot.
The wound-adaptation-pattern framework for creating characters whose psychology drives their behavior, relationships, and story conflict naturally.
A freelance ghostwriter explains how catastrophizing affects his writing and business, and the strategies that actually work to manage it.
A ghostwriter on what happens when you let people’s doubts kill your book. Real stories of projects that almost did not happen and ones that should have.
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