by Ali | Sep 16, 2019 | Motivation
How to Get Back On Track When Your Writing Plans Go Awry This post was originally published on Aliventures in May 2016, and updated in September 2019. So you’ve made a plan for the next few months. For a month or two, everything goes fine. You’re writing regularly,...
by Ali | Sep 9, 2019 | Motivation
What to Do When Your Writing Isn’t Working Out How You Hoped Are you getting as much writing done as you’d like? Are you seeing the success you want? For most writers, the answer is “no” … and that’s perfectly normal. Maybe, for instance, you thought that...
by Ali | Sep 2, 2019 | Fiction
Five Handy Ways to Patch Plot Holes in Your Novel Sometimes, you feel like your story hangs together pretty well … until you re-read your whole draft. That’s when you notice all the places where it’s not quite working. If there’s a tiny inconsistency (like a...
by Ali | Aug 26, 2019 | Fiction
Novel Structure: Seven Plot Points You Should Know In screenwriting, there are commonly agreed “plot points” that movies are expected to follow. With novels, you’ve got more flexibility – but many writers and theorists would argue that you should hit...
by Ali | Aug 19, 2019 | Fiction
How Much Research Do You Need for Your Plot to Hold Together? This is the second post in our series on “Developing Better Plots”. If you missed last week’s post, you can find it here: What is Plot … and is it the Same Thing as Story or...
