by Ali | Nov 5, 2018 | Writing
This is a familiar situation for a lot of writers. You want to write – but you don’t have an idea to actually write about. Whether you’re working on blog posts, novels, short stories, or something else entirely, you need ideas. And it can sometimes feel that ideas are...
by Ali | Oct 23, 2018 | Writing
A few weeks ago, in the Aliventures newsletter, I wrote about how frustrating it can be when the project you’re working on takes a lot longer than you’d hoped. If you missed it, you can read that newsletter online here. (If you’d like to get the newsletter to your...
by Ali | Oct 15, 2018 | Writing
What are your excuses for not writing? I’m sure they’re good ones, because I have plenty of good excuses, too! And I don’t want you to think I’m being dismissive or unkind about your excuses – our reasons for not writing are generally based on real difficulties, or...
by Ali | Oct 8, 2018 | Writing
I got into freelancing by accident. Almost eleven years ago now, I started a blog (not this one – it took me a couple of attempts to settle on a homebase online). To try to get more readers, I submitted a “guest post” to a much bigger blog. To my delight, they...
by Ali | Aug 6, 2018 | Writing
I’m taking a break from blogging on Aliventures over the summer – I’ll be back in late September with a spruced-up blog design and plenty of posts lined up for the rest of 2018. In the meantime, I wanted to share plenty of resources and reading that you might want to...
by Ali | Jul 17, 2018 | Writing
Note: This post was first published in 2011, and updated in July 2018. Do you struggle to focus when you’re writing, or do you find yourself starting and stopping a lot? It might be because you’re skipping certain stages of the writing process without even...
