Critical ThinkingThe internet is full of free stuff, and none of it is actually free. Heinlein gave us the shorthand in The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress: there ain't no such thing as a free lunch. Things may look free, but…
ThemePlot is what happens; theme is what it means. A man climbs a mountain, that is plot; a man climbs it to prove he can still do hard things after losing his wife, that is theme. Same events, a different…
Fiction WritingA busy street through a dog's eyes is not signs and storefronts; it is exhaust, a wall of noise, the dart of feet, the same scene rebuilt entirely from instinct and sensation. Writing an animal's POV means abandoning human-centered thinking,…
Book MarketingEvery month has a reason to celebrate books, if you know where to look. This calendar collects more than 100 of them: author birthdays, fictional character birthdays, reading holidays, and the odd offbeat date worth marking. Use it for content…
DialogueThe difference between a story people finish and one they never forget is feeling, the ability to reach through the page and stir something real. That is emotional writing, and it starts with understanding what truly drives your characters. Here…
GhostwritingI'll write it myself someday is a polite way of saying never, because someday is not a day on the calendar. The conditions that stopped you for the last decade are the same ones stopping you now, the job, the…
GhostwritingYou have been saying I don't have time to write a book for years, and you are right, nobody has four hours a day to learn story structure and stare at a blank screen. That is exactly why ghostwriting exists.…
AlgorithmsPost your best work to 127,000 followers and get 47 likes; a kid filming himself eating cereal upside down to 180 followers pulls 2.3 million views. That is the algorithm working as designed, turning creators into gambling addicts and follower…
DialogueEvery sentence has a beat. Read enough bad prose and you feel it: the same length over and over, a monotone drone. Good writing varies its rhythm like good music. Here is how rhythm works and how to use it…
Character DevelopmentPowers, a villain, a saved city: superhero fiction looks easy, and that is the trap. The stories that endure use the extraordinary to dig into ordinary human problems. Here are ten craft decisions, from characters readers actually care about to…
Character DevelopmentFairy tales are the oldest storytelling technology humans built, and their machinery, tight structure, archetypal characters, a moral spine, will sharpen your writing in any genre. Here are ten techniques for writing fairy tales that hold up on the surface…
Personal StoryThe books that held up on rereading, the ones that betrayed me, and what the difference between them says about what a book is doing when it works.
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