by Ali | Sep 3, 2026 | Fiction
Nine Things that Are Totally Normal (and Expected!) When You’re Writing a Novel If you’re writing a novel, you might have moments – or even months – where you’re tempted to give up. Perhaps something about the process makes you feel like you’re doing it all wrong, or...
by Ali | Jul 18, 2026 | Fiction
Aliventures Summer Break 2026 – Eight Posts to Catch Up On Summer’s here in the UK and I’ll be taking some time off from blogging. I’ll still be sending the Aliventures newsletter on and off over the summer. To get that, plus my free “Make Time to Write”...
by Ali | Jul 9, 2026 | Motivation
Writing Progress in Q2, 2026: What Worked, What Didn’t, and Why At the start of January, I set out my writing goals for 2026, and wrote about how these were going at the end of Q1. We’re now halfway through the year … so here’s what’s been happening. The 2026 goals I...
by Ali | Jul 2, 2026 | Fiction
What is a Scene vs a Chapter – and How Should You Structure Each? Are you writing in scenes or in chapters? That might sound like a weird question. Maybe you feel like it doesn’t matter, or that they’re basically the same thing, or that it doesn’t matter either way....
by Ali | Jun 25, 2026 | Fiction
Your Writing Matters (Even When it Doesn’t Feel Like It) Do you ever feel like your writing just doesn’t matter? Unless you’ve got some kind of deadline, writing is pretty much never urgent. It’s also not something that needs a lot of space or time: it’s tempting to...
