Fiction WritingPlotters plan every scene and pantsers discover as they go. I write the first chapter, outline the book as a page of chapter headers, then write whichever chapters grab me and connect them together. Here's the ink blot method for…
AudiobookSeptember is National Library Card Signup Month. Why every writer needs a library card and how libraries shaped one author's career.
Character DevelopmentThe food scenes that stay with you were never about the food. What a character eats, how, with whom, and what they push away quietly tells the reader about class, culture, psychology, and power, no exposition required. A meal is…
MemoirThree hours arguing with a Commodore 64 about where to put a brass lantern, and I was not mad, I was impressed: Zork understood English, remembered my moves, and responded like it was alive. Text adventures were collaborative fiction; SimCity…
Authority Through AuthorshipA ghostwriter with 54 completed projects and 113+ published books on what the profession looks like from the inside. March 1-7 is National Ghostwriters Week.
Fiction WritingChoosing a point of view feels easy until you are 150 pages in and realize you have been head-hopping, or describing things your narrator could never see. POV consistency breaks at novel length precisely because it looks trivial. Here is…
Character DevelopmentI'm stressed about tomorrow. Did you know Mongolia has under three million people? That sideways reply is a non sequitur, and what reads as awkward in real life becomes a precision tool in fiction. A character who dodges the obvious…
Character DevelopmentFill out the worksheet, assign the eye color and the favorite food, list three strengths and three weaknesses, and you get a character who is technically complete and feels like small talk with a stranger. Details are not the problem;…
ADHD113+ books, 54+ ghostwriting projects, 12,000 words on a good day, and still some mornings a voice says I have no idea what I'm doing. It has been there through every book, including one that raised $30 million for a…
Book CoachingThanksgiving hands a writer everything at once: gratitude and guilt, warmth and dysfunction, food, family, and a tangle of uncomfortable history. It has fueled stories since long before it was a national holiday. Here is how books and movies have…
Amazon & KDPMost of my books sit at four and five stars, but every author eventually meets the brutal one-star takedown. The first one stings; it does not have to derail you. After 113+ books, here is how I read a bad…
Character DevelopmentDead parents, abusive childhoods, betrayed trusts, writers stack trauma into character bibles like medals at a suffering Olympics. The problem is not that the past matters; it is treating it as decoration instead of the engine driving how a character…
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