What makes a writer write? Find out whether your experience chimes with the initial feedback from important new research by Professor Alison Baverstock and team – with reactions also from key ALLi members.
Tag Archives | motivation
Writing Success – Against All the Odds?
Do you sometimes feel self-publishing success is eluding you? You’re not alone – but C Lee McKenzie’s post about motivation reminds us why we keep writing, and why the odds aren’t as stacked against indie authors as much as we might think
Why I Write What I Write: Self-Help Books That Saved My Life – by Grace Allison
This post demonstrates the power of self-publishing in changing authors’ lives – Grace Allison explains how it saved hers
Why I Write What I Write – by Indie Author Stuart Reid
How and why former Dubai hotelier Stuart Reid took up writing for children and launched a whole new career
Writing: How to Find Inspiration from Readers
Where do you find inspiration for your writing? Sci-fi and steampunk author explains how he’s gleaned ideas for sequels and prequels from his readers’ reactions to his books
More Writers’ Wednesday Aphorisms
For this Writers’ Wednesday, we have a second helping of ALLi members’ favourite wise words about writing to inspire indie authors to aim high and achieve their self-publishing goals. On Quality “The first draft of anything is shit!” – Ernest Hemingway “This quote reminds me not to expect perfection out of the gate,” says Jay […]
Writing: Take Your Time to Love Your Writing
This Writers’ Wednesday, Pauline Baird Jones, an award-winning novelist who writes romance, action-adventure, suspense, romantic suspense and comedy-mystery, as well as several short story collections, offers a timely reminder not to lose track of the sheer joy of writing as we pursue our self-publishing ambitions. This an exciting (and crazy) time to be an author. […]
Writing: Wise Words to Inspire and Motivate Indie Authors
Do you have a favourite saying or quote that drives your writing? I asked that question of ALLi members on our Facebook discussion forum (a members’-only benefit) and was overwhelmed by the smart, succinct responses. Some shared famous authors’ aphorisms, others lines that they had arrived at by themselves. Here they are, and I hope […]
Writing: The Role of Writing Role Models in Your Self-publishing Career
For #WritersWednesday, here’s a question that’s a starting point for a conversation, rather than defining an answer: when writing and promoting your work, should you compare yourself to other authors? Indie authors are sometimes advised to drop another better known author’s name into their blurb, in hope of luring in that more successful author’s readers. […]
Why I Write What I Write: Writing Unmutes Me
American psychologist Deborah Cox shares her extraordinary story of how writing liberated her from her own past, shaped by her upbringing within a fundamentalist church. In the mid-1990s, I was an academic psychologist, studying women’s anger. The ideas electrified me, but I wrote about them in the traditional way. I never uttered a syllable that wasn’t […]