by Ali | Jun 25, 2013 | Old post
Writers’ Huddle Now Open for New Members My community / teaching site, Writers’ Huddle, is now open for new members. 🙂 If you’ve been waiting ages for me to reopen it, head on over there now and join! And if you’d like to know a little bit...
by Ali | Jun 10, 2013 | Freelancing
9 Things I Wish I’d Known When I Started Freelance Writing [Guest Post] Ali: This is a guest post from Karol K. of Writers in Charge, who got in touch and offered to share these great tips with us. Like Karol, I started freelancing without really noticing. In...
by Ali | Jun 3, 2013 | Motivation
The How and Why of Working With Your Inner Critic  Image from Flickr by fakelvis The real secret is that anyone can write a book. There’s no initiation ceremony. No dues to pay. You don’t need a special degree from a fancy school. Writing is for everyone, and this is...
by Ali | May 24, 2013 | Creativity
Seven Common Misconceptions About Writing … and the Reality I used to have a lot of fuzzy ideas about the writing life. From my early teens, I knew I wanted a career as a writer … but I had no clear picture of what that involved. Since then, I’ve slowly...
by Ali | May 14, 2013 | Fiction
Eight Ways Writing a Novel is Like Becoming a Parent Kitty at one month. If you’ve been following Aliventures for a while, you’ll know that my husband and I have a baby daughter. She’s two months old now and, over the past weeks, I’ve come to realise that although...