by Ali | Apr 12, 2011 | Motivation
Eight Secrets Which Writers Won’t Tell You Image from Flickr by Lazurite This is not particularly relevant to the post, but I’m getting an awful lot of comments telling me, often a little snarkily, “it’s ‘THAT’ not...
by Ali | Apr 5, 2011 | Creativity
How to Get Your Writing Project Started – in Four Easy Steps I posted yesterday about On Track, my seven-week writing ecourse. I thought you might like a little taste of the course, so here’s a shortened, modified version of the first lesson. You can also...
by Ali | Apr 4, 2011 | Old post
Back in January, I was excited (and a bit nervous) as I launched my very first ecourse, On Track. A bunch of fantastic students signed up, and we had a brilliant six weeks: starting new projects and restarting stalled ones, working through lessons and assignments,...
by Ali | Mar 31, 2011 | Publishing
Why I’m Giving Up on My Dream This isn’t a post I ever imagined I’d write. For as long as I can remember, I’ve wanted to be a novelist. Half a lifetime ago, when I was thirteen, I started working on my first novel. (It was pretty crap, for the...
by Ali | Mar 23, 2011 | Publishing
Indie Publishing: What I Learned from SXSW I’m back! As you might know, I was in Austin, Texas for the annual South by South West (SXSW) Interactive conference. So what did I get up to? Well, I spent a lot of time hanging out in coffee-shops and at...
