by Ali | Dec 9, 2013 | Old post
Blogger’s Guide Half-Price Sale for Charity Super-quick version: All four of my Blogger’s Guides are half-price from Mon 9th – Sat 14th December All the money raised in that time will go to Divya Shanthi, a small charity in Bangalore, India Details of the guides...
by Ali | Nov 5, 2013 | Fiction
Let’s Get Spooky: Writing Workshop Recap I’ve not been to nearly as many workshops and classes this year, due to a certain little person taking up a lot of my time… But my friend and fellow writer and blogger Lorna Fergusson of fictionfire runs inspiring...
by Ali | Oct 29, 2013 | Fiction
NaNoWriMo 2013: Are You In? For the uninitiated, NaNoWriMo is short for (inter)National Novel Writing Month. It takes place every November. Across the world, tens of thousands of writers sign up to the challenge of writing a 50,000 word novel in just one month....
by Ali | Oct 15, 2013 | Fiction
Four Ways to Cut Your Novel’s Draft (and Make Your Story Stronger) Image from Flickr by adrperez Is your novel looking a little bloated? Do you have a sneaking feeling you’ve repeated yourself a few times? Are some of your scenes really just unnecessary padding...
by Ali | Oct 2, 2013 | Creativity
My Guest Post on Positive Writer: Talking About Your Writing I’m very pleased to have a guest post up on Bryan Hutchinson’s Positive Writer blog today, titled Are You Unwittingly Sabotaging Yourself by Talking About Your Writing? It covers a couple of...
