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...
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...