Bad Poetry Day: Why Writing Terrible Verse Makes You a Better Writer
February 12, 2026
August 18 is Bad Poetry Day. Why writing badly on purpose is one of the best exercises a writer can do. Vogons welcome.
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FictionWhat Movies Teach Writers That Writing Books Don’t
February 12, 2026
I keep thousands of films the way other writers keep reference books, and I have written deep analysis guides on more than 200 of them. Watched closely, movies teach pacing, structure, and dialogue that most writing advice skips entirely. Here…
BusinessMistakes Are Not Okay. How You Handle Them Is
February 12, 2026
When a point-of-sale system fails across a retail chain, stores stop taking money and the calls start before you have even found the problem. I ran those systems at Trader Joe's for 20 years. In that world, mistakes are okay…
Thought LeadershipWhy Business Leaders Cannot Communicate and What to Do About It
February 12, 2026
The 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.…
Book CoachHow I Handle Rejection as a Ghostwriter: The Business Reality Nobody Talks About
February 12, 2026
I charge $1 a word, which puts a typical book between $50,000 and $80,000. When prospects hear that, some of them simply disappear. Rejection is part of this business, and almost no one talks honestly about it. Here is how…
WritingWriting Motivation with ADHD: How I Write 10,000 Words a Day Across 10 Projects
February 12, 2026
I 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…
ObservancesMerry Christmas: A Writer’s Holiday
February 12, 2026
How a 113-book author uses the 24 days before Christmas as a creative advent calendar, why Christmas Day is for reflection not production.
Artificial IntelligenceWhy Every Writer Should Embrace AI as a Digital Assistant
February 12, 2026
I use AI daily, wrote two free guides on it, and built 45 handbooks around it, so this is not an anti-AI rant; it is an anti-stupidity one. AI is a research assistant with infinite knowledge and zero memory, a…
GhostwritingMoving Forward with Your Book: Three Clients Who Did
February 12, 2026
The hardest part of writing a book is not the writing; it is the deciding. People weigh it for months or years while the book stays a someday idea. Here are three clients who finally committed, a manager past a…
Book MarketingBook Marketing: What Actually Sells Books and What Wastes Your Time
February 12, 2026
Most book marketing advice is not just unhelpful, it is destructive, sending writers off to dance on TikTok for years while their books gather digital dust. I have published 113+ books, sold 15,000 copies of one in three days, and…
Book MarketingStop Chasing Bestseller Lists: What Actually Makes a Book Valuable
February 12, 2026
Once a month someone asks me how to hit the New York Times list, and I tell them the truth they do not want to hear: it barely matters. The lists are corrupt and largely irrelevant to what a book…
ObservancesIndependence Day: What Freedom Means to a Writer
February 12, 2026
A writer's reflection on Independence Day, from childhood fireworks to Big Bear Lake, from grandfather's POW camp to the freedom to build a career out of words