Overcoming Writing ResistanceA 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…
Character DevelopmentLiterary publishing loves to celebrate bold new voices, as long as they sound like last year's winners. For all the talk of diversity and risk, the award circuits and highbrow editorial rooms run as one of the tightest echo chambers…
DialogueNorth America's comic and graphic novel market tops $2 billion a year, and creators are noticing it reaches readers traditional books never will. But a comic script is not prose, it needs visual pacing, tight dialogue, panel structure, and most…
Fiction WritingOne reviewer abandoned a historical novelist forever over a single anachronism: a spinning wheel in 13th-century England. One wrong object in one character's hands, and trust evaporated. While writing a novel about the Roman civil war between Vespasian and Vitellius,…
AI WritingMost people use AI writing tools wrong: vague prompts, vague output. A prompt is an instruction, and its quality decides the output's quality. Here are the five elements of a good prompt, ten you can copy, and what to do…
Critique GroupsThe most powerful writing tool I ever used cost me nothing: a small group of writers meeting regularly to read each other's work and tell the truth about it. I started one for science fiction through Meetup and learned what…
BiasAcross this series we walked through the echo chambers of social media, news, AI, academia, religion, publishing, geography, family, forums, influencers, and a weaponized TikTok. What started abstract turned out to be measurable, personal, and inescapable, mind control by consensus,…
GhostwritingHiring a ghostwriter is a smart decision, but it is not like hiring a contractor and walking away. The best books come from clients who know how to stay involved without getting in the way. Here is how to support…
Book CoachingWriters love picking a team: plotter, pantser, or plantser. I'm none of them. I write the first chapter, outline, then write whatever chapter grabs me and connect them together. Here's why the outline still matters, what happens when writers skip…
For Executives & ProfessionalsWhy pay so much when they are just typing up my ideas? It is the most common assumption about ghostwriting, and the most wrong. The work is research, fact-checking, voice matching, mid-project pivots, and relentless collaboration, not transcription. After 54+…
Hiring a GhostwriterMy grandfather never spoke about the war, three years a prisoner, marched through Manila, held in Japanese camps, not at dinner, not when asked directly. It stayed locked inside for decades, until one day I asked the right question and…
AI vs Human GhostwritingAI writing tools are not going away. The question is not whether to use AI, but whether you understand what it does well, what it does badly, and where it gets you into trouble. Here is the honest breakdown, and…
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