I’m a Wall Street Journal bestselling ghostwriter, founder of The Write Practice, novelist, and a dad in Atlanta, Georgia.
I’ve been teaching writers to practice since 2011, and about 30 million people have read something I wrote or taught. In that time I’ve written more than twenty books, most of them with other authors, and have worked with Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Hachette, small independent presses, and also self-publishing.
I’ve written for or coached Navy SEALs, Harvard-trained physicians, top 1% financial advisors, founders, first responders, nonprofit leaders, and fathers writing down what they want their children to know.
Books I’ve written or coached have reached the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Amazon bestseller lists.
I also write books under my own name.
We’re told practice makes perfect, and that getting there takes monomaniacal focus on one goal. Most of us don’t actually want that. What we want is the experience of devoted pursuit itself: learning, growing, and finishing something that matters without giving up everything else we love. Practice doesn’t make perfect. Practice makes transformation possible.
A travel memoir. My readers chose twelve adventures for me in Paris, and I’m not an adventurous person, so it went about as well as you would expect.
The timeless principles behind great stories. The Write Structure became an Amazon bestseller and it’s the framework our book coaches are trained in.
Short stories have traditionally been the training ground for writers learning the craft. This helps them get started.
A short story about a boy, his music teacher, and the jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown. It’s free.
I write, and I also make software, most of it for writers.
I built a book coaching platform behind our programs, a custom writing contest tool, a Write or Die replacement (since tragically it died), parts of Twig, a virtual dev editor, as well as many more things (including a Stardew Valley gift calculator, which is, embarrassingly, the most visited content on this site).
I’ve published thousands of articles, essays, and guides online over the course of writing and teaching for the last 15 years.
I have an occasional newsletter about practice, writing, and whatever I’m working on that comes out at odd moments when the moon looks just right in the sky.
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