AI AdoptionAI is genuinely good at the work most people are bored doing, pattern-based, bounded, repeatable, low-stakes, easy to check afterward. Stop asking it to write your book or run customer service and start handing it the ten categories it actually…
Book ReviewsMost writers fail not for lack of talent but because they cannot sit down and write on the days they don't feel like it. Atomic Habits is the best-organized book I know for that: systems over goals, habits that compound,…
ADHDWriter's block isn't one problem with one solution. It's a symptom of four different things, and you need to fix the actual cause. If you have ADHD, traditional writing advice is probably making things worse, not better.
Writing CraftFrom the IBM Selectric to whatever we call today's machines, the tools kept changing while one truth held: your writing space governs your output. Here is the converted dining room where 100-plus books got written, the books, the butterflies, the…
Book ROI & Business CaseSarah and Jake worked the same sixty-hour weeks in the same industry; Jake carved out thirty minutes a morning, Sarah said she had no time. Eighteen months later Jake's book hit the bestseller list, his speaking fee jumped from $2,500…
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…
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;…
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…
AugustAugust 18 is Bad Poetry Day. Why writing badly on purpose is one of the best exercises a writer can do. Vogons welcome.
ADHDI am writing ten books at once: five novels in progress, plus client work, coaching, and handbooks, producing up to 12,000 words on a typical day. I also have autism and ADHD together, the combination most people assume would make…
Book CoachingSet a writing resolution in January and you have likely broken it by March, because resolutions are gym memberships in disguise, all enthusiasm and no structure. The fix is not more willpower; it is goals instead of resolutions. Here is…
Character DevelopmentHow a 113-book author uses the 24 days before Christmas as a creative advent calendar, why Christmas Day is for reflection not production.
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