Writing Interactive Fiction – with Michael La Ronn
How do you engage readers? Self-published author Michael La Ronn, from Iowa, USA, shares his positive experience of writing interactive…
Writing: Feel the Fear and Write It Anyway
Launching Cauldstane, her seventh novel, has a special significance for Linda Gillard, because the book embodies her response to her…
Writing: How To Use the Snowflake Technique to Write A Novel
British historical novelist Richard Denning explains the very popular Snowflake Method for planning and writing novels, illustrated by examples from…
Opinion: Write From The Heart (Not For The Genre)
Choosing to self-publish liberates authors from the need to write within the constraints of fiction genres favoured by trade publishers.…
Writing: How To Turn Your Life Into A Novel
Helena Halme, Finnish author of three self-published novels, offers excellent advice on how to turn fact into fiction effectively, drawing on her own experience of writing The Englishman.
Writing Novels: How to Get the Balance Right Between Fact & Fiction
Lucy McCarraher's personal experience of writing novels challenges the old adage that fiction authors should simply write about what they…
Writing: A Round-Up of ALLi’s Best Writing Advice from 2013
As regular readers of this blog of self-publishing advice will know, each Thursday we host a guest post about a…
Writing Memoirs: Telling The Ugly Truth in a Beautiful Way
Self-publishing a memoir provided Elaine Pereira with an instinctive way of coping with the loss of her mother to Alzheimer's-related…
Opinion: Never Take Yes For An Answer
Author and performance poet Dan Holloway explains why steering clear of third-party validation is the key to true success as…
How I Do It: Successful Indie Authors Share Their Secrets. This week: Orna Ross
This week, as she launches a poetry anthology for Christmas and celebrates being dubbed "One of The 100 Most Influential…
Writing: How Poetry Helped My Prose
Self-published writer of novels, poetry, short stories and more, Michael La Ronn describes how his early ventures of writing poetry…
How To Make Money from Your Writing
Writing for the love of writing is all very well, but love won't pay the rent. ALLi Director Orna Ross…