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...
by Ali | Aug 14, 2017 | Creativity
Why You Should Join – Or Start – a Local Writers’ Group Do you belong to a writers’ group? Some authors don’t feel they have much benefit … and I’ll agree that if you’ve got several published books that are selling well, you’re probably rather beyond the local...
by Ali | Jul 17, 2017 | Editing
Editing Your Novel on Your Kindle: Creating a .Mobi File and Using Send-to-Kindle You’ve got a finished draft of your novel – hurrah! Of course, you know the hard work isn’t over. You’ll want to edit your novel (and quite possibly run it past some beta-readers). Like...