by Ali | Apr 12, 2024 | Fiction
What Comes Before and After Your Story? Character Backstory and Living Happily Ever After The stories that stick with me are ones where the characters feel like real people, with lives before the story begins … and lives that continue after the final page. These...
by Ali | Apr 4, 2024 | Motivation
Annual Writing Goal Progress in Q1, 2024 (What’s Working Well?) We’re a quarter of the way through 2024, with three months down already. Some years, I get loads done in this first quarter of the year (Q1). But the first three months of 2024 didn’t go quite as...
by Ali | Mar 28, 2024 | Motivation
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...
by Ali | Mar 21, 2024 | Freelancing
How to Meet Your Freelance Income Goals in 2024: Six Steps to Success Quick note on currency: I’m in the UK, but I give my rates in dollars because most of my clients are in the US. I also tend to use dollars for examples here on Aliventures as I have more US than UK...
by Ali | Mar 14, 2024 | Fiction
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,...
