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Recent Blog Posts
What to Do When Your Writing Goals Seem a Long Way Off
What do you want to achieve with your writing? You might have all sorts of goals. Perhaps: You want to win a short story competition.
You want to make an extra $500/month freelancing. You want to make a full-time living as a fantasy novelist. You want to sell 100,000 copies of your latest book…
Getting Out of Your Writing Slump: Part #2 – Re-entering the Writing Zone
Last week, we looked at some of the practical things you can do to clear some space in your life for writing. Simply having the time and energy to write, though, isn’t enough. You need the desire to write too … and that’s what today’s post is all about. When you’ve not been…
Getting Out of Your Writing Slump: Part #1 – Get Re-Energised to Write
Are you writing? Do you want to be writing? Every writer I’ve ever known has gone through some sort of “slump” at some point, when they do want to write but they simply don’t have the time, energy or focus to do so. Writing slumps are normal. Going through…
About Ali
I’m an author (of both fiction and non-fiction) and a freelancer, and though you’ll find me writing for a lot of the biggest writing blogs out there, 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).
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