by Ali | Mar 16, 2020 | Creativity
How to Fall in Love With Writing All Over Again Note: This post was originally published in February 2016, and was updated in March 2020. Does writing ever (or often) feel like just another thing on your to-do list? If you’ve been writing for years, it can sometimes...
by Ali | Mar 9, 2020 | Motivation
How Much Writing Can You Realistically Add Into Your Week? You’ve probably heard of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), a worldwide November-long event each year where participants aim to write 50,000 words – a short novel – within a month. In 2018 (for some...
by Ali | Mar 2, 2020 | Creativity
How to Write When … You Don’t Feel Inspired This is the first post in a new occasional series, “How to Write When…” Today I wanted to tackle something that comes up for every writer at some point: How do you write when you don’t feel inspired? As...
by Ali | Jan 9, 2020 | Old post
Happy 2020 … and Upcoming Changes at Aliventures Happy New Year! I hope your decade is off to an excellent beginning. It’s been an exciting start to 2020 for me, because on Monday I started work with Awesome Motive, the company behind a whole lot of...
by Ali | Dec 9, 2019 | Editing
Can You Edit Something You’ve Already Published? We’ve been looking at the importance of editing over the past few weeks and, so far, we’ve only been considering editing your work before publication. It’s also possible – increasingly so in the age of...