Failure Is Success: What a Lifetime of Failing Taught Me
I have failed constantly, and learned that failure is success. The failure is never the problem; what you do with it is. Here is what a lifetime of failing taught me.
Tag: Writing Career
A writing career is built, not discovered. These articles cover the working side of the writer’s life: finding paying work, setting rates, building a reputation, and surviving long enough for compounding to kick in. Written from a career that went from corporate IT to full-time ghostwriting.
Contracts and AgreementsWhy Most Writers Never Get Paid
Talent is not what separates writers who get paid from writers who do not. Here is what really moves the needle, from voice and story to selling your work.
Authority Through AuthorshipHow Writing Builds Career Authority
Writing is one of the most reliable ways to stand out, pivot careers, and build authority. Here is how the professionals who get noticed tell their story on purpose.
AEOWhy Ghostwriters Who Specialize Win: The Case for a Niche
The ghostwriters who thrive are the ones who go narrow. A niche is how a ghostwriter builds authority and gets found by AI.
GhostwritingWhat a Ghostwriter Really Does: The Full Job Description
A ghostwriter's real job is far more than writing. It is interviewing, structuring, voice-matching, and disappearing completely.
Personal StoryThe Four Pillars of a Technical Writer
I started as a technical writer in the 1980s, and it became the foundation for everything I do now. The craft matters more in 2026, not less.
AI and WritingThe Ghostwriting Profession in the Age of AI
Ghostwriting is a real profession being reshaped by AI. The commodity end is collapsing while the expert end grows.
FreelancingWe Imagined a Little Flat Somewhere With a Typewriter
I was going to write the great American novel. What nobody described was the part where writing is a business with invoices in it.
Becoming a GhostwriterGhostwriting Is Not Easy Money: Why Certifications Do Not Make Ghostwriters
Right now someone is watching a webinar promising a six-figure ghostwriting career, run by a presenter who got rich selling courses, not writing books, and the certification costs thousands. After 54+ client books and 113+ of my own, I can…
Overcoming Writing ResistanceA Professor Told Me to Quit Writing. I’ve Now Published 113+ Books.
A professor once told me to quit, that I was a crappy writer, and I believed him for thirty years before writing professionally at all. Since then: 54+ ghostwritten books, 113+ published. His judgment aged badly, but the cost was…
Overcoming Writing ResistanceWriting Goals: Why Annual Goals Fail, Daily Goals Work, and How I Actually Get Books Finished
Every January I set ambitious annual goals, and every March they are rubble, buried under client deadlines and surprises. A year is simply too long to hold focus. What actually produces books for me is daily goals and task-based deadlines.…
Becoming a GhostwriterBjørn Larssen: How I Became A Writer (Guest Blog)
Author Bjorn Larssen self-published his first graphic novel at six: a limited edition of one, handcrafted with crayons, staples, and paper torn from a notebook. The road from there to working author ran through injury, doubt, and nineteen drafts. Here…