My Books
I also write books under my own name.
The Pleasure of Practice
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.
Crowdsourcing Paris
The best stories always come from adventure.
When a cautious writer decides to take his family to Paris, he realizes he’s just $600 short. To raise the money, his audience donates to twelve adventures they choose for him to accomplish once he gets there.
What follows is a series of uncomfortable, amusing, and sometimes life-threatening adventures in one of the most beautiful cities in the world. I find dead authors in Père Lachaise cemetery, perform a song and dance under the Arc de Triomphe, and get dangerously lost in the hundred miles of illegal catacombs sixty metres below the city.
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The Write Structure
The hidden principles behind bestselling, award-winning stories.
Great books don’t happen by accident. They’re written by people who understand, consciously or unconsciously, the principles hidden inside the best stories. Those principles are easy to learn, and they drive the success or failure of bestselling novels and award-winning films alike.
Using simple, universal terminology and easy-to-grasp visualizations, The Write Structure uncovers those principles so new and experienced writers can understand their own stories and make them better. It’s the framework our book coaches are trained in.
Let’s Write a Short Story
Get published sooner.
Writing a novel is hard. Writing one good enough to publish is harder. And even if you manage it, getting noticed by agents and publishers is nearly impossible.
There’s another option. Short stories have always been the training ground for writers learning the craft. Stephen King, Ernest Hemingway, and Mark Twain didn’t start with novels; they learned the art of fiction by writing short stories.
Hands
A dying musician meets his favourite student and finds he can only connect again through his music.
The story follows the life of the great jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown, who died tragically young. It’s about how music connects us beyond race, generation, and even death.