DialogueHe walked quickly across the room is fine, and that is the problem, the writer dodged a decision. Stride, hurry, rush, scurry: each carries different psychology and stakes, and the adverb just papers over the choice. A weak verb propped…
Fiction WritingLong before Silicon Valley discovered it, science fiction was living in the metaverse, Stephenson named it in 1992, Williams spent four novels there, Cline built a bestseller on it. Virtual worlds are one of the genre's deepest veins. Here is…
Authority Through AuthorshipThe right time to write your book is when you know what it's for and can give it a few hours a week. The best moments come before a fundraise or launch, at a career transition, and while the people…
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Fiction WritingMetafiction is a story that knows it is a story, where characters notice they are characters and the narrator comments on the act of writing. Instead of maintaining the fourth wall, it demolishes it. It is far older than the…
GhostwritingThe most effective books I have ghostwritten were sometimes not books at all but series, two, three, five titles built to compound an author's authority and pull readers through a catalog. It is harder than standalone work, because every choice…
Story StructurePut people who love each other and people who can barely stand each other in one room, add alcohol and thirty years of grievances, and something always happens. Holidays are not useful in fiction because they are warm and magical;…
Fiction WritingI have written civilization-ending apocalypses and survived Northridge and multiple wildfire evacuations, so I know destruction from both the keyboard and the evacuation route, and the gap between the two is exactly what separates effective catastrophe from forgettable spectacle. Here…
GhostwritingI hand clients a polished manuscript, every one revised many times before they see it. But building a book and inspecting it are different jobs, and I still tell every client to hire a separate editor. Here is what a…
ResilienceRunning at 12,000 words a day has a price: a crash that can flatten you for days when you misjudge it. Most burnout advice treats it as a willpower problem, which it is not. It is structural, and it has…
GhostwritingThe Art of the Deal sold millions, spent 48 weeks on the bestseller list, and made Trump a brand before he ran, and decades later supporters still brought copies to rallies. That is the power of a political book: it…
Authority Through AuthorshipAcross 54+ books, the split is stark: some changed careers, one raised $30 million, one became required university reading, while others, equally well written and full of good information, simply never connect. Quality is not the dividing line. Here is…
Authority Through AuthorshipClients come to me convinced they need a book. What they usually need is a brand, and the book is how we build it, starting not with writing but with hard questions: who are you talking to, what should they…
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