The craft decisions that change the work rather than decorate it. When to break a rule, why resolutions collapse in February, what editing is really for, and what a long writing life looks like from inside it.
artificial intelligenceAI is not a writer. It is a digital assistant you direct, skilled at some tasks and weak at others. Here is how a working ghostwriter uses it, where it earns its place, and the reservations that keep it on…
StorytellingThe 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.
StorytellingThe story you keep circling and never starting is usually the one with somebody waiting on the other end of it. Why the fear is a signal instead of a warning.
StorytellingSomebody wrote a book that got you through something, and they never knew it happened. That transaction runs in both directions, which is the argument for writing the one you keep not writing.
StorytellingThe thing you have not said is the most dangerous thing you own, and the cost of keeping it is higher than the cost of writing it down.
Writing ProcessWriting resolutions rely on motivation, and motivation is gone by late January. Write more is not a goal. What replaces willpower, and why the resolution was usually the wrong shape to begin with.
Writing ProcessEvery writer hits the wall. What it is, why it arrives when it does, and why pushing harder is the single response that reliably makes it worse.
AI and WritingAI prose leaves fingerprints and readers register them before they can name them. Hedge phrases, connector parades, sterile rhythm. Five passes, in order, that take machine assisted text and make it sound like a person wrote it.
Writing ProcessEvery rule in writing exists because it solves a real problem. Knowing which problem a rule solves is what tells you when it stops applying, which is the only useful way to decide whether to break it.
Writing ProcessA writer who could not get the words right until she stopped trying to get them right. What changed, why it worked, and what it says about the difference between control and attention.
Author TalksGhostwriter and historical novelist John Lynch joins Author Talks to discuss writing about common people, professionalism, and no writer's block.
Author TalksFormer drummer John DeHart joins Author Talks to discuss trading music for writing, cathartic psychological suspense, and making his hometown a character.
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