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...
by Ali | Aug 2, 2016 | Freelancing
Fully updated and republished in August 2016. This week, the start of August 2016, marks the eight year mark since I left my day job. Ever since then, I’ve been supporting myself through writing. It’s my dream career – and I love being able to set my own hours, work...
by Ali | Jul 25, 2016 | Fiction
When Dialogue Gets Weird: Representing Unorthodox Forms of Speech on the Page (Text Conversations, Psychic Communication, etc) Whether you’ve written any fiction yet or not, you’re probably extremely familiar with how dialogue appears on the page: it’s surrounded by...
