How to Write 10,000 Words a Day
Writing 10,000 words in a day sounds impossible until you see the machinery behind it. I do it on top of ghostwriting, blogging, and promotion, and the secret is not talent or typing speed. It is a system of goals,…
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Creative Writing EssentialsCommon Writing Mistakes That Kill Books Before They Start
Every writer makes mistakes; I have published 113+ books and still make them. The difference between a working writer and someone who only talks about it is what you do next. Here are the mistakes I see most often from…
Creative Writing EssentialsHow to Lead a Happy and Prosperous Life: From Someone Who Rebuilt His
I spent 33 years in technology, twenty of them at Trader Joe's, building a career that looked successful from the outside. Then at 53 I walked away from all of it. That decision taught me more about happiness than three…
Creative Writing EssentialsImposter Syndrome and ADHD: Writing 113+ Books With a Brain That Fights You
113+ books, 54+ ghostwriting projects, 12,000 words on a good day, and still some mornings a voice says I have no idea what I'm doing. It has been there through every book, including one that raised $30 million for a…
Creative Writing EssentialsThe Fear That Stops Writers
For years I would not submit my fiction anywhere, not because the work was not ready but because the thought of someone judging it triggered a physical reaction I could not reason past. My chest would tighten and I would…
Creative Writing EssentialsPositive Transformation to Improve Your Writing
Inspiration does not improve your writing; practice does, and practice needs a system that holds up against deadlines, fatigue, and real life. Most advice treats output as a willpower problem, which is why most advice fails. Consistency is structural. Here…
Creative Writing EssentialsHow to Overcome Writer’s Block: 10 Methods That Work
Writer's block is not staring at a blank page; that is just starting. The real thing is wanting to write and being unable to keep anything you produce, drafting and deleting in circles. Here is what block actually is, why…
Creative Writing EssentialsMy Writing Setup: The Converted Dining Room Where 113+ Books Happened
From the IBM Selectric to whatever we call today's machines, the tools kept changing while one truth held: your writing space governs your output. Here is the converted dining room where 100-plus books got written, the books, the butterflies, the…
Creative Writing EssentialsThe Rose Parade Pins That Stopped Me Decluttering
I had the display case open and the pins counted. Then I checked what they were worth, and the arithmetic stopped me. Knowing when to stop is the part nobody teaches.
Creative Writing EssentialsI Made $25,000 in a Year From Things in My Closet. Here Is What Changed.
A thousand items, twenty-five thousand dollars, one year. eBay has changed under sellers since 2003, and most of the advice out there describes a platform that no longer exists.
Creative Writing EssentialsStuck at chapter 3: the four reasons authors stall and which one needs which intervention
Almost every author who starts a book stalls at chapter 3, and the reasons are predictable while the fixes are specific. Here are the four root causes, structure, voice, motivation, and expertise, and the intervention each one actually needs. Most…
Creative Writing EssentialsIt Took a Camera to Make Me Comfortable Around Women
I went looking for a method and found several. None of them made me comfortable in a room with a woman in it. A camera did that, years later, entirely by accident.