Internet Trolls: How to Recognize and Handle Them
Internet trolls exist to provoke and disrupt, not communicate. Here is what attracts them, how they operate, and why you cannot win by engaging.
Tag: Writing
The broadest tag on the site, and the subject underneath everything else here. These articles cover the practice of writing itself: the habits, the craft, the business, and the strange satisfaction of putting words in a row until they mean something. Start here if you want the wide view.
AttentionCell Phones vs. The Real World
We have become hypnotized by small glowing screens, tuning out driving, conversation, and the world. Here is what it costs and how to put the phone down.
GhostwritingWhat Does a Ghostwriter Really Do?
A ghostwriter does far more than type your words. Here is the real scope of the role, what it costs, and the honest question behind putting your book off.
Contracts and AgreementsWhy Most Writers Never Get Paid
Talent is not what separates writers who get paid from writers who do not. Here is what really moves the needle, from voice and story to selling your work.
Authority Through AuthorshipHow Writing Builds Career Authority
Writing is one of the most reliable ways to stand out, pivot careers, and build authority. Here is how the professionals who get noticed tell their story on purpose.
Business BooksWhy Your Website Copy Is Costing You Customers
Your website copy and content are the foundation of your online presence, and most of it is quietly costing you customers. Here is how to write words that convert.
fiction writingHow to Write a Story From an Alien Point of View
Most writers who try to write a nonhuman character just put a human in a costume. Writing a real alien, animal, or AI point of view means subtracting yourself, one assumption at a time, until what is left is a…
fiction writingThings We Lost After the Year 2000 and Why They Mattered
Nostalgia is mostly a lie, but some of what we traded away after 2000 cost us something real. DVDs you actually owned, phone numbers in your head, the map of your own city, boredom that fed your imagination. A clear-eyed…
fiction writingWhat a Mars Colony Will Actually Look Like
The Mars colony in the movies, a gleaming glass dome with green gardens and sunset views, would kill everyone inside a week. The real thing will be buried under meters of red dirt, built by robots before anyone arrives, and…
fiction writingWhat Was the Big Bang, the First Nanosecond, and What Came Before
The Big Bang was not an explosion in space, it was the beginning of space, and the wildest events in cosmic history happened in the first sliver of a second. A plain-language tour of the first nanosecond, what the leftover…
AIThe Other Path Does Not Announce Itself
An amplifier of thinking instead of a replacement for it. The difference is invisible from inside, which is why the wrong path is the easy one.
fiction writingWriting Mystery, Historical, and Christian Fiction
Mystery readers demand fair play. Historical readers demand accuracy. Christian readers demand authentic faith. Genre-specific craft for writers who take their audience seriously.