Nathan Baugh

Consultant → writer. I study the best storytellers ever and share with you what I learn. Writing fiction and writing to 77K storytellers every Saturday. Join us 👇

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If you want to improve your writing and storytelling, I urge you to read some fiction.

Not necessarily for the prose but for the structure required to move you through a story.

- Cause & effect
- Intention & obstacle
- Hooks & cliffhangers

The internal logic builds the foundation of a great story, and it’s worth reverse engineering and trying to apply the ideas to your work.

PS. I talk about this stuff every week with 112k readers: nathanbaugh.substack.com

Ghostwriter. Exploring the art and science of storytelling. Debut fantasy novel sometime ~soon.

Here’s the problem with attribution:

1. I know of a business because I’ve followed the founder for years on twitter

2. Convo with friends around the topic

3. I don’t have link, so go to google to get link - accidentally hit sponsored link

4. Send link anyway

5. Friend applies for membership - it’ll be a low five figure a year thing

6. Business will see he clicked through Google ad

7. Attribute lead to Google ads

Reader, the Google ad did nothing, the twitter account did everything, and attribution will show the opposite.

Wonder how often this happens

Storyteller, wordsmith, pleasant chap

I write about writing—specifically fiction, craft, and the inner life of writers who think differently.

I’m a lifelong storyteller, a technical writer by trade, a fiction writer by calling. 

For more than 25 years I’ve worked at the intersection of clarity and complexity, translating dense, technical systems into language normal humans can actually understand.

These days, I apply that same skill to fiction. I write about story structure, narrative craft, and the why beneath the work, often through the lens of ADHD. 

Not as a productivity hack. Not as a brand angle. But as a lived experience that shapes how writers perceive tension, pattern, meaning, and momentum.

I’m especially interested in helping writers:
– understand how stories actually work
– finish what they start
– trust structure without killing their voice
– and stop mistaking struggle for failure

I’ll tell you a mystery – I’m not here to sell you a system.

(Not yet, anyway, heh.)

I’m here to think out loud about craft, wrestle with the work, and share what I’m learning as I write fiction seriously and deliberately.

If you’re a writer—especially one with ADHD—who cares about story, not shortcuts, you’re in the right place. 

You are my tribe, and I’ll be grateful if you go on this journey with me!

John Cook

I don't write like AI. AI writes like me.
 
Here's what makes me angry...
 
There's a whole industry built on the anxiety around AI-generated writing, and it's a scam. AI detection tools flag your writing as machine-generated, then conveniently offer a paid "humanizer" to fix it. 

Create the problem. Sell the solution. 

That's not a service. That's a shakedown.

And for neurodivergent writers like me, it's even worse. Em-dashes, structured thinking, precise language — the patterns that come naturally to ADHD brains — are the same patterns these tools flag as "AI tells." 

So we get hit twice: 
once for how our brains work, 
and again when someone tries to charge us to 'fix' it.
 
Neurodivergent designer Elise Gomes sounds the alarm:
 
"Many of these AI detection tools don't just misidentify human writing — they do it intentionally to push a paid service... This is nothing short of a predatory business model, profiting off an artificial problem they themselves create. And for neurodivergent people like me, whose writing is naturally different from neurotypical norms, it becomes an additional tax on simply being ourselves."
 
Did you catch that last line?

Those tools are 𝙖𝙣 𝙖𝙙𝙙𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙩𝙖𝙭 𝙤𝙣 𝙨𝙞𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙮 𝙗𝙚𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙫𝙚𝙨.
 
I'm not going to apologize for finding a better way to write. And I'm definitely not going to pay someone to make my voice sound more 'human' when the only people who think it doesn't are the ones selling the fix.

I have one test for my writing:

𝘐𝘴 𝘪𝘵 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥?

Everything else is just someone trying to sell something.

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