by Ali | Oct 30, 2017 | Creativity
Is Your Writing Just an Expensive Hobby (and So What If It Is?) Do you see your writing as a profession or a hobby? Or both? While some writers insist that writing is much more than a hobby – it’s a job, a business, even a calling – you might find it helpful to (at...
by Ali | Oct 16, 2017 | Motivation
How to Find the Time and Energy to Write When You Have Young Children The hardest thing I’ve done in my life is having kids. I love them to bits … but if you’re a parent, you’ll know exactly what I mean when I say that nothing prepares you for the reality of...
by Ali | Oct 9, 2017 | Motivation
Six Simple Ways to Improve Your Writing Environment (and Get More Done) Do you have lots of great writing intentions … only to find your day filling up with all sorts of other things? When you do sit down to write, are you easily distracted? Yes? Hey, me too!...
by Ali | Sep 25, 2017 | Marketing
How to Set Up an Email List – For Free Whatever you write, and whether or not you have a blog or even a website, it’s a great idea to have an email list. You might have heard this called an “email newsletter” or “mailing list” – it’s basically the same thing. The idea...
by Ali | Aug 28, 2017 | Fiction
Using Google’s “My Maps” to Keep Track of All the Locations in Your Novel I’ve got a particularly bad writing habit – and I suspect I’m not the only person who does this… All too often, I leap straight into the next scene with very little thought...
