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...
by Ali | Sep 24, 2013 | Creativity
Write More Easily: Understanding, Embracing and Moving Beyond Resistance Image from Flickr by William Brawley In this month’s seminar for Writers’ Huddle, I talked about resistance – a powerful force that can stop us writing, if misunderstood and unchecked. Resistance...
by Ali | Sep 10, 2013 | Old post
My New Blogging Job and The Blogger’s Guides Flash Sale You might have seen the news on Twitter or Facebook, but in case not … I’m now Head of Content over at the shiny new relaunched Zen Optimise (which is now Tribe SEO) … a fancy way of...
by Ali | Sep 3, 2013 | Motivation
Failed to Reach Your Writing Targets? Me Too… (Image from Flickr by Rennett Stowe) For the last six weeks, I’ve had a straightforward weekly writing target to meet: 3,000 words on my novel. And for two of those six weeks, I failed. Of course, there have been...
