by Ali | Oct 5, 2020 | Creativity
Getting Out of Your Writing Slump: Part #1 – Get Re-Energised to Write This post was originally published in June 2017, and updated in October 2020. This is the first of two posts about writing slumps; in this post, we’ll be tackling some of the non-writing...
by Ali | Feb 15, 2018 | Creativity
Could Firmer Boundaries Help You Dramatically Increase How Much You Write? 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...
by Ali | Aug 14, 2017 | Creativity
Why You Should Join – Or Start – a Local Writers’ Group 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...
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...