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How a professor caught students cheating by writing with A.I.

November 20, 2025

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The great dinner delay of August 3, 2015.

October 2, 2025October 9, 2025

For those who follow this blog, you know I love great writing. I found this on Quora yesterday. Apparently it was posted in Read More...

Which to write first – the manuscript or screenplay?

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Write the manuscript first, or the screenplay? By- Michael McKown Co-founder & president, Ghostwriters Central, Inc. Book or Read More...

xAI’s Grok chatbot adds us to its list of recommended ghostwriters.

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Hire a non-fiction ghostwriter

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How to spot ghostwriting scams

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Hire a ghostwriter for your novel

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Why hire a ghostwriter for a screenplay

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Using a ghostwriter for a memoir or autobiography

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Plot is, I think, the good writer’s last resort and the dullard’s first choice.

Stephen King

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

G.K. Chesterton

There are three primal urges in human beings: Food, sex, and rewriting someone else’s play.

Romulus Linney

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it’s to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.

Jim Morrison

No writer has ever yet been known to hang himself as long as he had another chapter left.

Thomas Wolfe

What I loved most about calling myself a reporter was that it gave me an excuse to show up anyplace.

Jeanette Walls

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.

Robert Benchley

It always comes down to characters, and individual stories about courage.

Steven Bochco

It is only natural to pattern yourself after someone. But you can’t just copy someone. If you like someone’s work, the important thing is to be exposed to everything that person has been exposed to.

Bob Dylan

Every writer with half a brain knows to surround himself or herself with editors who are smarter, far more articulate and infinitely better looking.

Chris Claremont

The character that lasts is an ordinary guy with some extraordinary qualities.

Raymond Chandler

My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.

Anton Chekhov

The reason 99% of all stories written are not bought by editors is very simple. Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home.

John Campbell

I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.

Tom Clancy

I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop.

Clarence Budington Kelland

Just don’t be boring!

Robert Liebmann

Keep a small can of WD-40 on your desk — away from any open flames — to remind yourself that if you don’t write daily, you will get rusty.

George Singleton

Don’t annoy an author, you’ll end up in their book and you won’t look good.

Lawrence Wray

Do not place a photograph of your favorite author on your desk, especially if the author is one of the famous ones who committed suicide.

Roddy Doyle

When writing a novel, that’s pretty much entirely what life turns into: “House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1,500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day.”