by Ali | Apr 28, 2023 | Fiction
Five Options for Telling Your Story in a Non-Linear Way … and Why You Might Want To Stories have a beginning, middle, and end … but they don’t necessarily need to be told in that order. Plenty of stories follow the advice given to Alice by the King in Alice in...
by Ali | Apr 20, 2023 | Motivation
Are Your Writing Dreams Unrealistic? This post was first published in August 2014 and updated in April 2023. Sometimes, I get emails like this: I enjoyed your blog post on making money from your writing. I’d love to make a living writing but I don’t know...
by Ali | Mar 24, 2023 | Motivation
Four Powerful Ways to Protect Your Writing Time (From Yourself and From Other People) You almost certainly don’t have all day, every day, to write. In fact, you might only have little pieces of writing time – half an hour here, 15 minutes there, maybe a full afternoon...
by Ali | Mar 17, 2023 | Motivation
How to Write When … You Have So Many Other Things to Do This post is part of my ongoing “How to Write When…” series. How do you write when you have so many other things you need to get done? This comes up a lot for writers. I’ve been going through the results of the...
by Ali | Mar 10, 2023 | Fiction
What is a Scene? Understanding and Using the Basic Unit of Story Structure This post was first published in March 2016 and updated in March 2023. Scenes are the building blocks of your novel. When you plan (if you plan!), you’re thinking in scenes: individual little...
