by Ali | Mar 4, 2011 | Fiction
Why Fiction is So Hard to Write I’ve been blogging for a little over three years. I’ve been writing fiction since … well, pretty much since I could write. My blog posts are read by thousands of people. Only 1% of the fiction I’ve ever written...
by Ali | Feb 28, 2011 | Publishing
Indie Publishing: Self-Publishing Grows Up (A screenshot from Amazon.co.uk front page) I’ve been hanging around in the writing world for twelve years, since I was fourteen. That’s when I bought my first book about writing, and when I first went to a...
by Ali | Feb 16, 2011 | Editing
Are You Over-Editing Your Work? Image from Flickr by pheaber Last week’s post on The Four Essential Stages of Writing got some great comments, including this one from Ainslie: I must admit that I am beginning to enjoy the redrafting and editing phase of my work...
by Ali | Jan 6, 2011 | Publishing
If You Don’t Get Published, Is Writing a Waste of Time? Like many photos on this site, this is with huge thanks to London lifestyle photographer Antonina Mamzenko. If you’ve been reading Aliventures for … ooh, a couple of weeks … you’ll...
by Ali | Dec 16, 2010 | Freelancing
This post is a semi-sequel to Freelance Writing: Ten Steps, Tons of Resources. As ever, I’d be delighted if you’d share it on Twitter. It’s pretty long (over 5000 words) so you may want to bookmark or print it, too.I get bored quickly. While I...
