“You can see by our outfits that we are both cowboys. If you get an outfit, you can be a cowboy, too.” Nope. You don’t become a cowboy just by...
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It’s almost New Year's, one of those days that psychologists call “temporal landmarks.” Here’s how researchers from Wharton described New Year’s in...
Authors: Understanding ChatGPT
ChatGPT is the talk of the town and the internet. It's going to change the way many of us write. But, frankly, there's more hype and hooey than...
6 Reasons Writing a Book is Hard
It's autumn in the South. That means it's college football season, and there are many get-togethers to watch games and spend time with friends. I...
The March of Technology for Writers
We live in an age of technology. It's easy to forget that a lot of the technology we take for granted is relatively recent. For most of history, if...
Not so fast: Things to think about before you write a word
Writing a book is hard work. If you want to write a book you're proud of, you'll probably spend at least a year writing it. That's a year of hard...
Writing on Vacation
According to the dictionary, vacation is “exemption from service, respite from work.” The word traces its origin back to this to the Latin for “to...
Write it down!
Writing is all around us every day. It’s so much a part of our daily life that we don’t give it much thought. But writing is an amazing tool that...
6 Keys to Making Every Writing Session Productive
One of the biggest challenges my book writing clients face is carving out time to write. Writing time is precious when you’ve already got a...
The Memorable Story of Ulysses Grant’s Memoirs
Ulysses Grant’s personal memoirs are a classic. Historian Ron Chernow described them as “The foremost military memoir in the English language.” I...