Latest

How to Find Plot Holes in Your Novel (Most Are Character Holes)Reshoring: The Factory Is the Easy PartMost of the Books I Was Forced to Read in High School Were CrapPlot Armor: Signs Your Hero Is Too Safe, and How to Fix ItShould You Sell Lifetime Rights to Your Self-Published Book for a Modest Advance?Shame Doesn’t Stop Artists From Using AI. It Stops Them From Telling You.AI Labels on TikTok and Meta Are Flagging Human WorkAuthor Richard Lowe Completes Peacekeeper, a Four-Book Science Fiction Series He Started at Age 14Fan Art Copied by AI: Glass Houses, Copyright and the Pile-OnSir Sam Neill: A TributeReal Names in a Book: Who Gets Sued, the Author, the Publisher or the Ghostwriter?When Characters Take Over the Plot, Let Them“You’re Not a Real Author”: The Pile-On Over AI-Assisted BooksDoes Human Writing Have a Soul?Does AI Have a Soul? Wrong QuestionHumor in Book Marketing: Getting Attention Without BeggingHow Long Should a Chapter Be? Manuscript Habits That Save You LaterThe Business Novel and the Companion Workbook: Two Formats Business Authors OverlookThe Back of the Book: Index, About the Author, Acknowledgments and Back Cover CopyI Build My Own Software Tools With Claude, and Some of Them Bit MeWhat Years of Buying From IT Vendors Taught MeThree Management Habits That Waste Good PeopleI Write Books for a Living. I Barely Read Them Anymore.The Coach and the Webinar That Sold Me NothingThe Work I’d Cringe At Now, and Why I’m Glad I DoPreface, Prologue, Foreword or Introduction: What Goes WhereWho Is Your Book For? Build a Reader Avatar Before Chapter OneWhy I Won’t Build a Ghostwriting Business That ScalesHow I Hire a Virtual Assistant: Do It, Script It, Hand It OffThe Mail Carrier Who Thought Flipping Houses Was EasyWhat Wedding Photography Taught Me About Pricing Creative WorkCloudflare’s Free Tier Got My Money, and I’d Pay AgainYou Can’t Edit Your Way Onto WikipediaBottom-Up, Top-Down: Why I Build Both Ways at OnceSix Months in Las Vegas and I Never Placed a BetMy Smart Speaker Took Over a Device I Never ConnectedThe Finished Movies Studios Threw Away for a Tax Write-OffReading Josephus: Pick the Right Translation and Watch His BiasResearch Your Amazon Categories Before You Write a WordThe Two Times the Desert Nearly Kept MeIs Writing With AI Theft? Stop Calling Writers ThievesAI Photo Restoration for Your Book: Fix the Photo, Keep the OriginalGrandma Isn’t AI Slop: The Pile-On Over Restored Family PhotosWhat Does AI Say When Someone Searches Your Name?It’s Not X, It’s Y: The AI Tell Shakespeare Wrote FirstWho Gets Rich From AI Data Centers? The Local, National and Global EconomyAre AI Data Centers Bad for the Environment? What’s True and What Isn’tAI Data Centers and Geopolitics: Chips, China, Spies and PowerAI Derangement Syndrome: Who Cares If the Cover Was Made With AI?How to Write a Plot Twist Readers Never See Coming

How to Find Plot Holes in Your Novel (Most Are Character Holes)Reshoring: The Factory Is the Easy PartMost of the Books I Was Forced to Read in High School Were CrapPlot Armor: Signs Your Hero Is Too Safe, and How to Fix ItShould You Sell Lifetime Rights to Your Self-Published Book for a Modest Advance?Shame Doesn’t Stop Artists From Using AI. It Stops Them From Telling You.AI Labels on TikTok and Meta Are Flagging Human WorkAuthor Richard Lowe Completes Peacekeeper, a Four-Book Science Fiction Series He Started at Age 14Fan Art Copied by AI: Glass Houses, Copyright and the Pile-OnSir Sam Neill: A TributeReal Names in a Book: Who Gets Sued, the Author, the Publisher or the Ghostwriter?When Characters Take Over the Plot, Let Them“You’re Not a Real Author”: The Pile-On Over AI-Assisted BooksDoes Human Writing Have a Soul?Does AI Have a Soul? Wrong QuestionHumor in Book Marketing: Getting Attention Without BeggingHow Long Should a Chapter Be? Manuscript Habits That Save You LaterThe Business Novel and the Companion Workbook: Two Formats Business Authors OverlookThe Back of the Book: Index, About the Author, Acknowledgments and Back Cover CopyI Build My Own Software Tools With Claude, and Some of Them Bit MeWhat Years of Buying From IT Vendors Taught MeThree Management Habits That Waste Good PeopleI Write Books for a Living. I Barely Read Them Anymore.The Coach and the Webinar That Sold Me NothingThe Work I’d Cringe At Now, and Why I’m Glad I DoPreface, Prologue, Foreword or Introduction: What Goes WhereWho Is Your Book For? Build a Reader Avatar Before Chapter OneWhy I Won’t Build a Ghostwriting Business That ScalesHow I Hire a Virtual Assistant: Do It, Script It, Hand It OffThe Mail Carrier Who Thought Flipping Houses Was EasyWhat Wedding Photography Taught Me About Pricing Creative WorkCloudflare’s Free Tier Got My Money, and I’d Pay AgainYou Can’t Edit Your Way Onto WikipediaBottom-Up, Top-Down: Why I Build Both Ways at OnceSix Months in Las Vegas and I Never Placed a BetMy Smart Speaker Took Over a Device I Never ConnectedThe Finished Movies Studios Threw Away for a Tax Write-OffReading Josephus: Pick the Right Translation and Watch His BiasResearch Your Amazon Categories Before You Write a WordThe Two Times the Desert Nearly Kept MeIs Writing With AI Theft? Stop Calling Writers ThievesAI Photo Restoration for Your Book: Fix the Photo, Keep the OriginalGrandma Isn’t AI Slop: The Pile-On Over Restored Family PhotosWhat Does AI Say When Someone Searches Your Name?It’s Not X, It’s Y: The AI Tell Shakespeare Wrote FirstWho Gets Rich From AI Data Centers? The Local, National and Global EconomyAre AI Data Centers Bad for the Environment? What’s True and What Isn’tAI Data Centers and Geopolitics: Chips, China, Spies and PowerAI Derangement Syndrome: Who Cares If the Cover Was Made With AI?How to Write a Plot Twist Readers Never See Coming

The Writing King Your Ethical Ghostwriter. Your Story, Done Right.

Tag: 1960s (Page 3)

Night of the Living Dead (1968) film poster

Night of the Living Dead (1968)

George Romero's 1968 zombie template. The genre's foundational document.

Rosemary's Baby (1968) film poster

Rosemary’s Baby (1968)

Roman Polanski's 1968 satanic pregnancy drama. Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes.

The Apartment (1960) film poster

The Apartment (1960)

An ambitious insurance clerk lends his apartment to executives for their affairs, until he falls for the boss's mistress at Christmas. The Apartment is Billy Wilder's 1960 American comedy-drama about an ambitious insurance company clerk who lends his Manhattan apartment…

How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1966) film poster

How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1966)

Chuck Jones directs the animated Dr. Seuss special about a sour creature plotting to steal Christmas from the Whos in Whoville. How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965) film poster

A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965)

Charlie Brown directs the Peanuts gang in a Nativity pageant after rejecting the commercialism of the season. A Charlie Brown Christmas is Bill Melendez's 1965 American animated television special depicting Charlie Brown's depression at the commercialization of the Christmas season…

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964) film poster

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964)

Billie Mae Richards voices Rudolph. The special is technically stop-motion puppet animation instead of claymation, executed by Tadahito Mochinaga's animation team at MOM Production in Tokyo.

Psycho (1960) film poster

Psycho (1960)

Hitchcock's adaptation of Robert Bloch's novel about a woman who steals from her employer and stops at the wrong motel. Psycho is Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 American horror-thriller adapted from Robert Bloch's 1959 novel, depicting a Phoenix real-estate secretary who steals…

El Cid (1961) film poster

El Cid (1961)

Anthony Mann's 1961 Spanish reconquista epic. Charlton Heston as Rodrigo Diaz, Sophia Loren.

Three Outlaw Samurai (1964) film poster

Three Outlaw Samurai (1964)

Hideo Gosha's 1964 directorial debut. Three masterless samurai aid peasant uprising.

Sword of the Beast (1965) film poster

Sword of the Beast (1965)

Hideo Gosha's 1965 second film. Fugitive samurai on the run.

The Sword of Doom (1966) film poster

The Sword of Doom (1966)

Kihachi Okamoto's 1966 nihilist samurai film. Tatsuya Nakadai as soulless killer.

Sanjuro (1962) film poster

Sanjuro (1962)

Kurosawa's 1962 Yojimbo sequel. Mifune returns as the ronin.