by Ali | Oct 3, 2016 | Motivation
How to Take Back Control of Your Time (and Fit More Writing In) Do you spend as much time writing as you want to? Hardly any writers do. Most of us have a lot of non-writing things going on. Depending on the stage of life you’re at, that might be education (school,...
by Ali | Sep 13, 2016 | Freelancing
Freelance Writing: Ten Steps, Tons of Resources This post was first published in 2010, and rewritten/updated in 2016. This is the guide which I wish I’d had when I was getting interested in freelance writing. It’s a step by step walk-through for the adventure...
by Ali | Sep 5, 2016 | Motivation
Should You Be More Business-Like About Your Writing? One piece of common advice in the world of writing is “treat your writing as a business”. But like the idea of striving to write faster and faster … is it really such an equivocally good idea after all? I have...
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by Ali | Aug 22, 2016 | Marketing
How to Write a Great Blurb for Your Self-Published Novel [With Examples] One of the more teeth-pulling tasks of self-publishing a novel is having to write your own blurb (or what Amazon calls a “product description”, and what some people call a “synopsis”). I spent...
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by Ali | Aug 8, 2016 | Motivation
How to Plan Writing Time into Your Week [With Downloadable Spreadsheet] Do you struggle to find time to write? That’s probably a silly question: almost everyone I talk to does. And many writers (me included) go through months or years of waiting. Waiting to have a...
