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Screening ghostwriters: Run a simple test.

December 27, 2025December 27, 2025

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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.

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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?

September 3, 2025October 9, 2025

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.

August 30, 2025October 9, 2025

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Hire a non-fiction ghostwriter

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How to spot ghostwriting scams

August 23, 2025August 24, 2025

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Hire a ghostwriter for your novel

August 23, 2025August 25, 2025

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Why hire a ghostwriter for a screenplay

August 21, 2025August 25, 2025

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Using a ghostwriter for a memoir or autobiography

August 20, 2025August 25, 2025

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In Hollywood, the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can’t read. If they could read their stuff, they’d stop writing.

Will Rogers

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else.

Gloria Steinem

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

Stephen King

A writer is a world trapped in a person.

Victor Hugo

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

Editor: A person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

Elbert Hubbard

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

You may be able to take a break from writing, but you won’t be able to take a break from being a writer.

Stephen Leigh

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

Tom Clancy

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

The first chapter sells the book; the last chapter sells the next book.

Mickey Spillane

A blank piece of paper is God’s way of telling us how hard it to be God.

Sidney Sheldon

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

Thomas Wolfe

I haven’t got 10 rules that guarantee success, though I promise I’d share them if I did. The truth is that I found success by stumbling off alone in a direction most people thought was a dead end, breaking all the 1990s shibboleths about children’s books in the process.

J.K. Rowling

Substitute “damn” every time you’re inclined to write “very”; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

Mark Twain

I’m writing a book. I’ve got the page numbers done.

Stephen Wright

Just don’t be boring!

Robert Liebmann

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

Romulus Linney

Read a thousand books and your words will flow like a river.

Lisa See

It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil, trying to keep up long enough to put down what he says and does.