Imposter SyndromeA writing professor once told me, to my face, that I would never be any good. I believed him for decades, and it kept me from writing far longer than I want to admit. The voice never fully shuts up,…
Authority Through AuthorshipNothing loses a reader faster in a political book than campaign-ad language, the sweeping promise, the slogan that means nothing. Voters have heard it and been let down, and a book that reads like a stump speech gets treated like…
Personal StoryAfter losing Georgia by 55,000 votes in 2018, Stacey Abrams spent two years telling one story, not about herself, but about 340,000 purged voters. By 2020 the state flipped by 11,779 votes. Policy did not do that; narrative did. Here…
DialoguePolitical fiction dies when the ideas sit in exposition while the characters chat about nothing. It comes alive when the politics happen inside the dialogue, where people persuade, deceive, and outmaneuver each other line by line. The best of it…
Fiction WritingThe briefcase everyone wants, the formula they would kill for, the MacGuffin drives the plot while barely mattering itself. The characters care intensely; the audience never has to. What matters is the chase and the choices it forces. Hitchcock named…
Fiction WritingPolitical fiction is really about power, who has it, who wants it, what happens when it shifts, and the best of it never tells you what to think. It puts you inside a system and lets you feel how it…
Book CoachingHalf the people who contact me ask for the wrong thing, requesting ghostwriting when they need a coach, or coaching when they need a ghostwriter. The mix-up is understandable; both put a professional beside you while you make a book.…
Overcoming Writing ResistanceInspiration 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…
Character DevelopmentIn academic writing a logical fallacy is an error to correct. In fiction it is a gift, because flawed reasoning that feels airtight to the character is exactly what drives conflict, dialogue, and plot. This overview opens a series on…
Character DevelopmentGive them a goal, a flaw, a backstory, send them on a journey, and you get a character with traits instead of a psychology, brave but reckless, wounded childhood that explains it all. They function and stay flat. Real characters…
Character DevelopmentLaughter is hard to earn on the page, tears harder, but fear is the steepest climb of all, because it is physical, and you are trying to trigger a racing heart with nothing but ink in a quiet room. That…
ADHDA client goes quiet for two days and my brain writes the entire catastrophe: he hated the chapter, he is firing me, the refund, the career-ending review. From he hasn't emailed to professional ruin in under an hour. If that…
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