Why Most Writers Never Get Paid
Talent is not what separates writers who get paid from writers who do not. Here is what really moves the needle, from voice and story to selling your work.
Category: Writing (Page 17)
BusinessWhat Does a Ghostwriter Really Do?
A ghostwriter does far more than type your words. Here is the real scope of the role, what it costs, and the honest question behind putting your book off.
BusinessWhy Every Expert Should Write a Book
A book is the most durable way to turn your expertise into authority and leave something that outlasts you. Here is why executives write, and how the process works.
BusinessHow Writing Builds Career Authority
Writing is one of the most reliable ways to stand out, pivot careers, and build authority. Here is how the professionals who get noticed tell their story on purpose.
WritingHow Writing Builds Growth and Emotional Intelligence
Writing is one of the most effective tools for personal growth, emotional intelligence, and clear thinking. Here is how putting thoughts on paper changes you.
Book MarketingWhy Your Website Copy Is Costing You Customers
Your website copy and content are the foundation of your online presence, and most of it is quietly costing you customers. Here is how to write words that convert.
WritingBehind the Book: Dungeon
In 1981 I fell in love with a text game called Dungeon, the predecessor of Zork. Forty years later I turned it into a novel. Here is why, and the decision that saved the book.
WritingBehind the Book: The Eternal War
The Eternal War started with one question: what happens when an AI goes to Hell? Not a person with a soul, but a machine that cannot find the pattern in eternal punishment.
WritingBehind the Book: Through the Looking Glass
The first Behind the Book essay: how my first novel grew from a Facebook message, fourteen hours of Skype interviews under a no-lying rule, a pen name I later retired, and an ending that refused a rescue.
ObservancesInternational Chess Day: The Game That Was Supposed to Die
International Chess Day is July 20. In 1997 a machine beat the world champion and everyone said chess was finished. Chess is now bigger than it has ever been, and writers are being told the same thing about AI right…
GhostwritingCybersecurity, Memoir and Philosophy Are the Same Job
People assume the range is a problem. What transfers between a security book and a memoir is almost everything that matters.
Behind the BookYour Book Needs a Better Reason Than I Wrote Some Stuff and People Liked It
Quantity is not quality, and an archive is not a book. The difference is whether it solves a problem for a group of people.