by Ali | Jul 20, 2021 | Writing
Summer Reading: Seven Posts You Might Have Missed I’m taking a few weeks off from blogging, so regular posts will resume mid-September. In the meantime, here are seven of my favourite posts from the past seven months for you to enjoy: How to Be a Writer: Ten Important...
by Ali | Jul 13, 2021 | Writing
Aliventures Summer Sale (2021) Now On! Want a writing boost this summer? Everything I sell is half-price until the end of Thursday 22nd July only. That’s: Get Writing (a guided introduction to four areas of writing – freelancing, blogging, short stories, and...
by Ali | Jun 29, 2021 | Writing
How to Get Writing Experience (Without Wasting Your Time) One question that I see from a lot of writers is how to get writing experience. It’s a particular issue for freelance writers, but it applies to pretty much all types of writing – in the recent Aliventures...
by Ali | Jun 22, 2021 | Writing
How to Be a Writer: Ten Important Steps to Becoming a Writer (and Living Your Dreams) From about the age of 10, I knew I wanted to be a writer. As a teenager, I imagined myself writing novels and getting paid for it. I took my writing seriously, buying books on the...
by Ali | May 24, 2021 | Writing
The Writing Process: Five Essential Stages for Anything You’re Working On Note: This post was first published with four stages of writing in 2011, and updated in May 2021 to include the publishing stage. Images are used under the Creative Commons 2.0 license. Do...
by Ali | May 18, 2021 | Writing
How to Write Faster: Twelve Tips to Get More Words Down Whether you’re a freelancer, a novelist, a student, or even someone writing as part of a day job, then chances are, you want to write faster. Some writers are naturally faster than others – and some genres and...
