WritingOver 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…
FictionTwenty 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…
WritingI 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…
ObservancesHalloween gives you permission to become someone else for a few hours. Writing does the same thing, except the transformation lasts longer. Here's how.
ObservancesA lifelong Star Trek fan with over 200 hardcover Trek novels on what the original series got right about storytelling that most of its successors missed.
WritingI wanted a contemplative little studio philosopher and got Sylvia Plath in hamster form, waking at 6:47 AM sharp with an existential crisis disguised as a to-do list. Catfood the neurotic hamster turned out to be a perfect lens on…
MemoirsJuly 20, 1969: eight years old, black-and-white TV, Walter Cronkite's voice cracking as the Eagle touched down. I did not fully understand it, but I understood people were on the moon. That night lit a lifelong obsession with space and…
FictionSpotless heroes take the high road; anti-heroes lie, scheme, and compromise, and somehow we love them more. Their flaws make them feel real in a way the virtuous rarely do. Here are ten reasons the anti-hero grips us, drawn from…
GhostwritingPlenty of people who hire a ghostwriter write well every day. What they're hiring is everything around the sentences: time, structure, an outside view of their own story, and someone to keep a months-long project moving.
MemoirsMost memoir attempts collapse in the middle, not from weak material but because the writer started before knowing what the book was actually about. Across 54+ memoirs, every one began not with writing but with discovery, hours of interviews finding…
FictionVilleneuve's Dune is gorgeous and largely faithful, but faithful is not the same as identical, and the gaps are where the real choices live, the cut dinner party, the vanished Alia, a dozen others. Some sharpened the story; some dulled…
PoliticsAn election is not a policy debate; it is a story, with the candidate cast as hero or villain and the voter deciding how it ends. Every modern campaign ran on a narrative, not a platform, nostalgia, urgency, a symbol…
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