Alli offers workshops, courses, and presentations on various writing topics including craft, inspiration, writing productivity and mental health, and science fiction. She has presented in-person and online through the Orange County Library, Central Florida Inklings, Savvy Authors, and Flights of Foundry and would be thrilled to speak to your writers, too.

Workshops & Courses

The workshops and classes Alli offers include an interactive component to get you thinking and writing. Workshops are about 2 hours in length. Classes involve multiple sessions. Most topics in a longer-format also have a 1-hour condensed version great for conferences and writing groups.

If you’d like for Alli to bring a workshop to your writing group or creative organization, she is available for virtual events worldwide and in-person around Central Florida.

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Transforming an Idea Into a Story
A workshop to teach you how to move from an idea to story in an hour. Participants will work with an idea to build a basic plot without hours of planning.

Reconnect with Your Writing Life
Struggling to return to writing after a long break? This 2-hour workshop focuses on strategies and exercises to rebuild your confidence and redefine your writing life. This workshop removes the blocks that has been preventing you from writing—guaranteed.

Make My Genre Punk
A multi-week workshop featuring lessons on eight punk sub-genres including historical information and examples. Includes writing exercises to develop your familiarity with the genres and writing alternate history.

Presentations

Presentations are your opportunity to benefit from Alli’s experience with writing, editing, motivation, organization, and productivity. All presentations include a slide show and a digital handout with links to resources. Presentations are 1 hour in length with time for audience questions.

If you’d like for Alli to speak to your writing group or creative organization, she is available for virtual events worldwide and in-person around Central Florida.

Book a Presentation

Edit Yourself Like a Pro
Learn how to edit your own work with the precision of a professional. Guidance includes the difference between objective and subjective edits and how to identify elements to edit or revise in your next draft.

Reconnect with Your Writing Life
Struggling to return to writing after a long break? Discover the strategies and exercises to rebuild your confidence and redefine your writing life. (This is condensed version of a longer workshop.)

Time Management for Writers
Make the most of your writing time by learning how to work with the time you have, prioritize projects, and schedule your writing day to better manage your time and productivity.

Develop a Writing Habit
Building a writing habit is the dream! Learn how to make a plan to support your writing, build motivation, and reap the benefits of consistently engaging in creativity to develop your writing practice.

Free & Inexpensive Apps for Writers
What apps are available for word processing, planning, tracking, and inspiration? This overview provides a list of the best free or low-cost apps, websites, and tools to take your writing life to the next level.

Novel Technology
Learn what apps, programs, and tools are out there to make your novel writing easier. From writer-specific apps to how to adapt Word and GDocs to master your novel writing process with the tools you already have.

Writing Advice You Can Ignore
Learn how to decode writing advice to assess whether it’s applicable to your writing life. Unpack the most well-known writing tenets and learn when to follow them and when to ignore them!

Science Fiction Topics

Make My Genre Punk
A 1-hour overview of five punk sub-genres including what defines the genre from a historical, technological, and social perspective.

Writing Steampunk
An overview of steampunk as a genre and how to apply genre tropes to your own story.

Writing Time Travel Fiction
An exploration of the methods and modes of time travel from the scientific to the magical, and all the useful ways you can use time travel tropes to tell your story.