Why a story lands. The one somebody is afraid to write, the one that saved a life, and what happens to a culture when the stories stop being trusted.
Business BooksMost business books are lectures. A business novel lets the reader ride along while characters learn the lesson, and a separately sold workbook gives them something to do with it afterward.
FearHe sold six companies and told me chapter eleven reads like a highlight reel. It does. That is the premise, and the problem is almost never too much achievement.
DialogueHis father said you will never amount to anything. Or did he? Memory reconstructs dialogue, it does not record it, and the quotation marks are what turn a memory into a claim.
FictionEvery chapter is addressed to four people who will never read it. That is when I suggest we write it as a novel, change the names, and move the industry.
Fiction WritingCollision with Andromeda sat unfinished for eight years. Here is the story behind a novel told partly from the point of view of a galaxy, and the lonely mind at its heart.
GriefI spent almost twenty years unable to write about my marriage to Claudia. The book only worked once I stopped telling it and let Buttercup, our cat, tell it instead.
AIAsk for an illustrative example and you get a plausible composite. Plausible composites are exactly what readers stop believing.
Book MarketingHold two facts together. Audiences rewarded films that looked like the actual country, and the industry made fewer of them. The UCLA Hollywood Diversity Report is the closest thing American film has to an honest mirror, and in 2025 it…
GhostwritingNone 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.
Character DevelopmentNational Comic Book Day celebrates the medium that taught a lot of us to love stories. I owned early Iron Man and Spider-Man issues, lost them all, and once trashed boxes of comics, and learned from all of it.
MarchWorld Storytelling Day celebrates oral storytelling, the spoken kind, not just the written. That distinction matters: story runs through your whole life, not just your manuscript, and shapes how you understand everything.
CultureSt. Patrick's Day is March 17. Beyond the green beer, it celebrates a great storytelling culture. What writers can learn from the Irish oral tradition.
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