by Ali | Sep 21, 2020 | Business
Nine Different Ways Writers Can Make Money by Writing This post was first published in February 2016. It was revised and updated in September 2020. Do you sometimes feel like you’ll never make any money (or enough money) from your writing? Perhaps the money...
by Ali | Sep 16, 2019 | Business
How to Get Back On Track When Your Writing Plans Go Awry This post was originally published on Aliventures in May 2016, and updated in September 2019. So you’ve made a plan for the next few months. For a month or two, everything goes fine. You’re writing regularly,...
by Ali | Mar 27, 2018 | Business
Why Having Grit is So Important for Writers … and Three Ways to Improve Yours [Guest Post] This is a guest post from Tamar Sloan, registered psychologist, and author of Grit for Writers, plus several romance books. You can find her website at TamarSloan.com and...
by Ali | Jan 15, 2018 | Business
Three Ridiculous Moans from New Writers … and How I’d Respond Most writers are reasonably pragmatic about the realities of writing. While they might daydream (secretly or not-so-secretly) about their talent being “discovered” by someone prominent in the writing...
by Ali | Nov 27, 2017 | Business
How to Be a More Disciplined Writer In this month’s newsletter, I’ve been writing a short weekly article about procrastination and resistance, and I wanted to carry on this theme in today’s blog post. If you’re missing out on the newsletter, click here to find...
by Ali | Sep 25, 2017 | Business
How to Set Up an Email List – For Free Whatever you write, and whether or not you have a blog or even a website, it’s a great idea to have an email list. You might have heard this called an “email newsletter” or “mailing list” – it’s basically the same thing. The idea...