Writing Success – Against All the Odds?
Why I Write What I Write: Self-Help Books That Saved My Life – by Grace Allison
Why I Write What I Write – by Indie Author Stuart Reid
Writing: How to Find Inspiration from Readers
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
Inspiration for Your New Year’s Writing Projects
Sometimes, when indie authors are sharing their experiences about producing and marketing their self-published books, and comparing notes about sales figures, it can be all too easy to lose sight of the most important part of the process that surely…
Why I Write What I Write
Estonian author Tina Tamman describes how her BBC career inspired her to write and ultimately self-publish biographies of key players associated with her native country. I have published two biographies over the past four years and I am working on…