by Ali | Feb 15, 2018 | Creativity
Back when I was a student, I had long vacations. Sometimes, I’d attend my previous writing group, back in my home town, where members would bring about 1,000 words of their work-in-progress to read each Monday evening. Guess how many words I wrote each week? About...
by Ali | Aug 14, 2017 | Creativity
Do you belong to a writers’ group? Some authors don’t feel they have much benefit … and I’ll agree that if you’ve got several published books that are selling well, you’re probably rather beyond the local writers’ circle stage of things. If you’re at an earlier...
by Ali | Jun 12, 2017 | Creativity
This is the first of two posts about writing slumps; in this post, we’ll be tackling some of the non-writing things you can do to get out of a slump … and in the second post, next Monday, we’ll take a look at getting back into the writing zone again....
by Ali | Apr 9, 2012 | Creativity
Image from Flickr by Sir_Iwan There are all sorts of qualities that writers have, but one that I don’t see discussed a lot is faith. Faith … … that you do have something worth saying … that you aren’t wasting your time … that someone,...
by Ali | Feb 1, 2012 | Creativity
Image from Flickr by Sean MacEntee You want to write … but you don’t seem to have anything to write about. Whether you’re writing blog posts, fiction, articles, or a book, try these ways to get a creative spark going. There are fifteen general tips, plus five...
by Ali | May 20, 2011 | Creativity
(Image from Flickr by erichhh) This is the second post in a two-part series about ideas. You can find the first part here: How to Come Up With Lots of Great Ideas. Thanks for this post! I don’t have trouble coming up with ideas; it is more about whether the idea is...
