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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.

An alleged SEO expert emailed me. This is what followed.

November 4, 2023June 4, 2026

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The descriptive powers of the great John Houseman.

September 27, 2023June 4, 2026

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The A.I. bot says: “Get out of the chair. Go have a drink. I’ll do the writing.”

July 24, 2023June 4, 2026

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The U.S. editor-in-chief of TechRadar.com tries to get ChatGPT to write a screenplay.

June 9, 2023June 4, 2026

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“And no one can talk to a horse of course.” Wrong!

May 18, 2023June 4, 2026

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The last of the three-dot journalists.

April 21, 2023June 4, 2026

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Unmarked graves out past Terlingua

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Words + emotion + lies = propaganda. Meet Joseph Goebbels.

February 26, 2023June 4, 2026

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What the boss does for fun. Buckle up. Yee-haw!

January 20, 2023June 4, 2026

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This is really what it’s like to be an editor.

December 30, 2022June 4, 2026

I came across this comical image while searching for a photo to illustrate our new page on editing and proofreading services. It Read More...

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

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.

William Faulkner

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

Lisa See

Critics are people who sit on the mountaintop and look down on the battlefield. When the fighting is finished, they take it upon themselves to come down from the mountain and shoot the survivors.

Robert Altman

A writer is a world trapped in a person.

Victor Hugo

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

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

Stan Lee

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

Tom Clancy

The fact is, I don’t know where my ideas come from. Nor does any writer. The only real answer is to drink way too much coffee and buy yourself a desk that doesn’t collapse when you beat your head against it.

Douglas Adams

Ever heard of a carpenter not going to work because he has “carpenter’s block”? If a writer can’t write, it’s because he doesn’t really want to, he isn’t ready to get it on paper or he’s just plain lazy.

Chet Cunningham

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

Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.

Matthew Arnold

I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.

Roald Dahl

Work on a computer that is disconnected from the Internet.

Zadie Smith

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

Sidney Sheldon

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

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

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

To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I’m writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I’m going to play for the opening sequence.

Quentin Tarantino

Stories are never too long or too short. They’re too interesting or too boring.