by Ali | May 11, 2020 | Time
How Can You Keep Writing if You Work Long Hours? This post was first published in August 2017 and was updated in May 2020. “I 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...
by Ali | Feb 25, 2019 | Time
Seven Ways to Get Other People to Respect Your Writing 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...
by Ali | Jan 7, 2019 | Time
How to Juggle All Your Different Writing Projects 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...
by Ali | Jan 9, 2017 | Time
How I Wrote More Fiction in 2016 than In Any Other Year (Despite Two Small Children) 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...
by Ali | Oct 17, 2016 | Time
Why Being (a Little) Selfish Might Be the Best Thing You Do for Your Writing 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...
by Ali | Oct 3, 2016 | Time
How to Take Back Control of Your Time (and Fit More Writing In) 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,...
