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Most people who work with writers, ghosts, story consultants or, as I heard recently, "narrative architects," come to the party thinking they have a writing problem. That's not quite the case. Most have a judgement problem. As I argued in Part 1, the writing is almost the easy part. Tough to say given that's the bit I invoice for, or at least the bit people think I invoice for. What usually happens is this. Someone who has lived an interesting life drops me a line, having dec

Like everyone in the written word business, I'm thinking about what AI means for what I do. What follows is focused on my lane, biography and memoir, though most of it transfers across the writing spectrum. The central question is simple enough: if AI can produce convincing, fluent, structured prose on demand, what exactly is left for someone like me to do? First up - this isn't philosophical, it's existential. Talking about AI as if the sky is falling or somehow artistically

I've noticed there's a question that comes up early in almost every conversation I have with a potential client. Usually somewhere between “how much does it cost?” and “how long will it take?” comes this: what does hiring you as my memoir ghostwriter actually involve? It's a reasonable thing to want to understand before committing to anything - I'd ask the same. So here is an honest account of what the work looks like, who it suits, and what separates a ghostwriter worth hiri

Most people assume the hard part of a memoir is the writing. It isn’t. The writing is the part you can fix. The real problems arrive much earlier, and they’re much harder to solve with a red pen. What tends to fail is not the prose, but the premise. People arrive with a sequence of events. A career, a set of achievements, a list of things that happened in more or less the right order. The assumption is that if those events are set down clearly enough, something meaningful wil

Some lives are lived. Others shape outcomes far beyond the room. Those need to be written properly.