Archive for April 2026
6 Big Reasons the Client Backslides
The manuscripts are almost done. After more than a year of conversing, probing, analyzing, writing, receiving feedback, and rewriting, I have two clients who appear to be backsliding. One client rewrote the entire manuscript, in the process ignoring the outline we agreed on and the feedback from his brother, a journalist who wrote his own…
Read More8 Great Uses of Critical Thinking
Remember that client who clearly wasn’t using critical thinking when he insisted on using the AI program Claude to “improve” his manuscript? If not, read about him here. Despite complaining about how often Claude and ChatGPT fell short, he sent me a manuscript replete with all the ways he (suddenly?) liked what Claude did. On first…
Read More7 Great Ways to Make it a Priority
I had a ghostwriting client who wanted to tell his story, but his priority also was to surf in the summer and ski in the winter. When the waves or slopes called, he was off. As a result, he never kept to a set schedule, making it impossible to consistently work on his project. Granted,…
Read MoreIntegrity and 4 Great Ethics to Consider
I recently came across a Wall Street Journal article (publicized widely on LinkedIn) that spoke to one;’s integrity. It was about Hachette Book Group, one of the Big Five publishers, canceling an upcoming title, Shy Girl by Mia Ballard, over concerns that it used too much artificial intelligence and not enough human writing. Read it…
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