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...
by Ali | Jan 7, 2019 | Creativity
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 | Dec 17, 2018 | Motivation
2018: The Best of Aliventures (Have You Missed Any of These Posts?) Reminder: you’ve got the rest of this week (until the end of Friday) to get your hands on Get Writing at “pay what you want” prices. You can pay as little as a dollar to get the...
by Ali | Dec 10, 2018 | Creativity
Should You Keep Writing Even if It’s Not Fun Any More? I mentioned in the Aliventures newsletter a couple of weeks ago that I finished NaNo on 23,000 words: not all that close to the 50,000 words I’d been aiming for! So what happened? Several things: I had...
