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...
by Ali | Dec 3, 2010 | Blogging
Why Writers Should Blog and Bloggers Should Write (Photo of me is thanks to my fantastic father-in-law!) For a couple of years now, I’ve been caught between two different worlds. There’s the blogging world. Your world. The world where I write these posts,...
by Ali | Nov 29, 2010 | Creativity
Find Your Writing Voice – By Starting With Your Heart Photo by the awesome Antonina I had several reasons for taking an MA in Creative Writing – including “getting student discounts”. But my main hope was that the course would help me find my writing...
