Reasons Not to Write is my satirical series cataloging every excuse writers use to avoid the page, examined with the respect each deserves, which is not much. If you recognize yourself in an installment, that was the idea.
Reasons Not to WriteAlmost everybody who tells me they have no stories tells me three in the next ten minutes. They do not count them because nothing dramatic happened.
Reasons Not to WriteNone of these felt like stories when they happened. A brick in a doorway. A microwave on the wrong network. Each one ended up carrying a chapter.
Reasons Not to WriteMost people who need a ghostwriter never decide they do. Here are the real signs the book in your head needs another pair of hands to get written.
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