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Turning Your Inner Critic into an Inner Coach … and Growing Your Writing Confidence
Have you come across the idea of an “inner critic” before? For writers, the inner critic is that little voice inside your head that criticises your writing. That could be on a big picture scale, with your inner critic telling you things like…
How to Meet Your Freelance Income Goals in 2024: Six Steps to Success
A couple of weeks ago, my guest post went up on Buffer, titled How I Increased My Freelance Writing Income By 79% Percent in a Single Year (and How You Could Too). It goes through some specific techniques I used to grow my freelancing income…
Six Practical Ways to Handle the Passage of Time in Fiction
This post was originally published in February 2016 and updated in March 2024. Whether you’re writing a short story or an epic novel series, fictional time is going to pass during it. Obviously enough, fictional time is not the same thing as real time (unless you’re...
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About Ali
I’m an author (of both fiction and non-fiction) and a freelancer. Aliventures is my homebase online where I share articles on the art, craft and business of writing.
I live in Leeds (UK) with my husband and two kids, and I have degrees in English (MA Cantab, from Cambridge University) and Creative & Life Writing (MA, from Goldsmiths College, University of London).