WritingFebruary 10, 2026
In 1969 I saved for months to buy the big red Lord of the Rings, and my parents bet I would never finish it. I read it twice back to back, and it rewired how I understood story. Fifty-five years…
GhostwritingFebruary 10, 2026
Most people who contact me already know their subject; what they do not know is how to turn a subject into a book. An executive who wants to write about leadership has territory, not yet a topic. Here is how…
GhostwritingFebruary 10, 2026
Every writer knows the blinking cursor at 11 PM and the client's face falling over a draft that missed. A handful of old laws from engineering and military strategy, Murphy's, Kidlin's, Gilbert's, explain almost everything that goes right and wrong…
FictionFebruary 10, 2026
Telling a complete story in under 1,000 words is brutal, and that is exactly why flash fiction teaches you to write. With no room to hide behind backstory or description, every word has to pull weight or the story breaks.…
ObservancesFebruary 10, 2026
September 6 is National Read a Book Day. A 113-book author on why reading is the single most important thing a writer does besides writing.
GhostwritingFebruary 10, 2026
No ghostwritten book gets made alone; the client brings the ideas and the voice, the writer brings craft and structure, and the quality of that partnership decides the quality of the book more than talent on either side. After fifty-plus…
FictionFebruary 10, 2026
Writers feel guilty about watching television, and they should not. Done with intention, it is one of the most accessible craft lessons available, a master class in dialogue, pacing, and structure. The key word is intention. Here is how to…
WritingFebruary 10, 2026
In 2005 I aimed a cheap Olympus at the moon, chasing the thing I had stared at since the 1969 landing. The moon punishes consumer cameras, but I got the shot, and something unrelated to the shutter clicked into place.…
WritingFebruary 9, 2026
Over eight years and 300-plus renaissance festivals, I shot roughly 980,000 photos of performers, belly dancers, jousters, pirates, often hired, always watching through the lens. That much close observation rewires how you see people. Here is what 980,000 photographs taught…
FictionFebruary 9, 2026
Twenty minutes was all I managed of Rings of Power, and everything since has confirmed the verdict: the writers do not understand Tolkien, flattening Galadriel from one of his best characters into a stock action hero. It looks like Middle-earth…
WritingFebruary 9, 2026
I put my television in a closet and left it there for ten years. Friends thought I had lost my mind. What I gained was a decade of focus that produced more than 50 books and a business. Here is…
ObservancesFebruary 9, 2026
Halloween gives you permission to become someone else for a few hours. Writing does the same thing, except the transformation lasts longer. Here's how.
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