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First published on November 1, 2026
Presenting the inaugural presentation of The Second Act Author, my video series dedicated to helping writers in their "second act" -- fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty years or older -- bring their writing to fruition, to market, and to an audience. Watch the video or, if you prefer, read the article adapted from the video content. So, you're on the other side of 50 years old. Maybe quite a ways from 50. Maybe you're 60-plus, 70-plus, maybe you're even 80 years or older. And you're finally at that point in your life where you think maybe it's time to write that book. To tell those stories you've been waiting decades to tell. There are many reasons, perhaps, that caused you to keep putting that off... and there are just as many reasons why now is a better time to write than ever before. Here's a big one: You have something of a superpower. A secret weapon, if you will. Something that writers younger than you, by and large, simply do not have. This might not be that much of a secret if you're 50, 60, 70, 80 years or older, because, after all, you've been on the planet for... 50, 60, 70, 80 years or…