🚨 Reminder: Everything in the Aliventures Shop is half-price until the end of this Thursday (31st July). Use
the code SUMMER2025 to get your discount. 🚨
More details at the bottom of this email!
If you live in the Northern hemisphere, it's summer right now. And that likely means some changes to your everyday routines.
You might be:
- Taking a week or two's holiday (vacation)
- Caring for kids or grandkids during their school's summer break
- Visiting family, or having guests stay with you
All of these things can be lots of fun ... but they can also be quite disruptive to your writing time.
So how do you keep writing during the summer?
First, you don't have to write at all if you don't want to. It's fine to
take August (or longer) off from writing completely, if that suits you best.
But assuming you do want to stay at least a little bit in touch with your writing, here are three things that may help.
#1: Consider Switching Your Writing Focus
If you're drafting a novel, the summer might be so busy that it's hard to get many words down on the page ... but perhaps this is a great time to take a step back, re-read what you've written so far, and work on an outline for the rest of the draft.
Or, you might decide to have a complete break
from your novel and work on something shorter: poetry or short stories, for instance.
#2: Create Extra "Scaffolding" Around Your Writing
Whether you're sticking with a big project or working on something short, one problem that a lot of writers face during the summer
is that their time is more interrupted or truncated than usual.
Even if you don't normally do much planning, you might find it helps a lot to have a "scaffold" for your writing: a list of bullet points roughly outlining your next scene, for instance. That way, even if you only have 10 minutes, you can make some progress in tackling the next little bit.
#3: Write as Early in the Day as Possible
I often think I'll find time in the late afternoon or evening to write, only for tasks to take longer than expected or for other things to get in the way. (Just a few examples from last week: the kids wanting a water balloon fight; my daughter's baking
taking longer than expected; the England-Spain Euros final going into extra time then penalties... though it was worth it for the result!)
Perhaps your days go a bit like that too. The only good solution I've found is to write as early in the day as possible. That way, even when other things inevitably overrun, at least you'll have done some writing.
And if you need a little writing boost, check out the sale...
🌞 Aliventures Summer Sale 🌞
Everything
in the Aliventures Shop is half-price with the code
SUMMER2025
until the end of this Thurday, 31st July.
This includes:
⚡
Supercharge
Your Writing
$8
$4
for one guide; $20
$10
for all four
The Supercharge Your Writing series is designed to help you get more writing done ... and enjoy it more too. It includes:
You can buy an individual guide for a specific area you're struggling with (Supercharge Your Writing Session is the most popular as an individual purchase). Or, you can get all four guides for just
$10.
Find out more here:
aliventures.com/supercharge
Remember
to use the code SUMMER2025 to get your discount.
📝
Editing
Essentials
$10
$5
Editing Essentials takes you through 20 common writing mistakes, showing you what those mistakes look like ... and how to fix them.
It also comes with a printable checklist of the mistakes plus a detailed guide to formatting and punctuating dialogue correctly.
aliventures.com/editing-essentials
Remember
to use the code SUMMER2025 to get your discount.
✍️
Get
Writing
$20
$10
for the set of four guides plus bonuses
Get Writing is designed to help you dip into, or go further with, four areas of writing: short stories, novels, blogging, and freelancing.
For each area, there's a four-week mini-course you can follow for getting started.
aliventures.com/get-writing
🚨 After the sale ends, Get Writing will be off the shelves for good so this is also your final chance to get your hands on it. (I'm taking it off the market as I've refocused Aliventures on fiction writing, and half of Get Writing deals with freelancing & blogging.)
Remember
to use the code SUMMER2025 to get your discount.
🏃
How
to Write Faster
$15
$7.50
for the whole course plus bonuses
How to Write Faster is a short video course going through techniques to speed up your writing. (There's also an audio version you can download and a nicely-edited transcript.)
If you feel like you're writing too slowly, or you just want to
improve your speed even more, How to Write Faster is for you:
aliventures.com/how-to-write-faster
Remember
to use the code SUMMER2025 to get your discount.
All my products come with a 30-day money-back guarantee: if you buy one and you feel it wasn't a good fit for you, just let me know within 30 days and I'll refund you in full.
Happy writing,
Ali
P.S. Not sure which of these might be the best option for you? Just hit "reply", tell me a bit about you & your writing, and I'll be happy to recommend one. :-)
