Post number one. Hi there!

Welcome to the Ghostwriters Central blog. This blog will be authored by me, for the time being. We do hope you will find it to be useful, informative or entertaining. Or all three. --Michael McKown.

Ding! Going down? An astonishing description of the World Trade Center collapse.

June 2, 2026June 3, 2026

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Mr. & Mrs. Vintage Typewriters, Bremerton, WA.

May 31, 2026June 3, 2026

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A.I. writing and publishing: Busted!

May 20, 2026June 13, 2026

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Why independent thinking matters to writers.

March 13, 2026June 3, 2026

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How desktop publishing put a Linotronic Imagesetter in my office.

March 12, 2026June 3, 2026

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The late-night drunk caller.

March 11, 2026June 3, 2026

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Screening ghostwriters: Run a simple test.

December 27, 2025June 3, 2026

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

November 20, 2025June 3, 2026

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The great dinner delay of August 3, 2015.

October 2, 2025June 3, 2026

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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...

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

Stephen Wright

If you wait for inspiration to write, you’re not a writer. You’re a waiter.

Dan Poynter

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

Thomas Wolfe

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

Gloria Steinem

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.”

Neil Gaiman

Work on a computer that is disconnected from the Internet.

Zadie Smith

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

Steven Bochco

Reading and weeping opens the door to one’s heart, but writing and weeping opens the window to one’s soul.

M. K. Simmons

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

Jeanette Walls

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

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

If you have an idea that you genuinely think is good, don’t let some idiot talk you out of it.

Stan Lee

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

My aim is to put down what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way I can tell it.

Ernest Hemingway

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

Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

George Bernard Shaw

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.