by Ali | May 23, 2022 | Business
Seven Crucial First Steps for Your Writing Career This post was first published in July 2014 and updated in May 2022. Have you ever thought about – or daydreamed about – turning your writing into a career? Perhaps you’ve already made some progress or perhaps...
by Ali | Feb 7, 2022 | Business
How to Be a More Disciplined Writer This post was first published in November 2017 and updated in February 2022. While some people like to imagine writers working in bursts of frenzied inspiration, the reality doesn’t generally look like that. There might be wonderful...
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,...
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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...
