by Ali | Feb 25, 2019 | Time
Picture this: You sit down to write, having managed to summon up the last dregs of your energy at the end of a long day … and your housemate pulls up a chair next to you to tell you all about the terrible date they went on the previous night. Or your spouse decides...
by Ali | Jan 7, 2019 | Time
Do you have several different writing projects on the go? Maybe you have a blog, plus you’re working on a novel. You also have a few short stories that you want to revisit and find markets for, and you’re thinking about trying something new, like poetry or...
by Ali | Aug 1, 2017 | Time
“I currently run an IT staffing agency and work in excess of 60 hours during the week, not to mention what gets handled on the weekends. So my question is this: how would you balance that with a love and desire to write?” This is what Bryan wrote to me a few weeks ago...
by Ali | Jan 9, 2017 | Time
I finished two full drafts of my novel, the third Lycopolis book, by mid-November 2016 … the most fiction I’ve ever written in a year. This is despite 2016 being a pretty hectic year, with two small children, limited work hours, and fiction-writing being...
by Ali | Oct 17, 2016 | Time
One of my writer friends – and my fiction editor – Lorna Ferguson wrote some wise words in her email newsletter recently: Praise yourself for what you’ve achieved. Keep your promises to yourself when you say ‘I’ll have an early night’ or ‘I’ll go for that walk’. We...
by Ali | Oct 3, 2016 | Time
Do you spend as much time writing as you want to? Hardly any writers do. Most of us have a lot of non-writing things going on. Depending on the stage of life you’re at, that might be education (school, university, or evening classes), a day job (full time or part...
