by Ali | Feb 25, 2019 | Motivation
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 | Feb 19, 2019 | Creativity
How I Write on My Phone … WITHOUT Typing on a Fiddly Touchscreen Could you write a novel on your phone? No? How about drafting all your blog posts there? Maybe the very idea sounds ridiculous. Tapping out a text message onto the screen is bad enough – writing a novel...
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by Ali | Feb 11, 2019 | Fiction
Stylised Talk: Writing Great Dialogue [With Examples] Image from Flickr by procsilas This post was first published in August 2015, and updated in February 2019. If you’re a fiction writer, unless you’re writing a very short story or something decidedly experimental,...
by Ali | Feb 4, 2019 | Fiction
Unreliable Narrators: What Are They and Why Might You Want to Use One? An unreliable narrator is a first person narrator who doesn’t entirely tell the truth. That might be because they’re biased or deluded – or it could be because they’re outright lying to us (or, at...
by Ali | Jan 14, 2019 | Motivation
Is Writing a Novel a “Someday” Dream for You? Note: This post was originally published in 2016, and was updated in January 2019. Are you thinking of writing a novel someday? Maybe you’re waiting because you don’t have an idea, yet. Maybe you’re waiting because you...
