by Ali | Mar 18, 2019 | Writing
This is the second post in a month-long series about procrastination. You can find the first post here: Three All-Too-Common Writing Fears Holding You Back … and How to Beat Them. In the Aliventures survey a couple of weeks ago, one reader wrote: “When I have the time...
by Ali | Mar 4, 2019 | Writing
I’m working on some new things for Aliventures … and I thought you might like to know what’s coming up over the next few weeks. The Annual Aliventures Survey About once a year, I run a survey to find out what you want from Aliventures (and then I do...
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by Ali | Feb 11, 2019 | Writing
Image from Flickr by procsilas This post was first published in August 2015, and updated in February 2019. If you’re a fiction writer, unless you’re writing a very short story or something decidedly experimental, you’re going to have to write dialogue. For some...
by Ali | Jan 28, 2019 | Writing
If you’ve been freelancing for any length of time, you’ve probably come across sites that sell essays to university students. These are “essay mills”. Briefly, in about 2008, I ran a blog about student life, and I was constantly approached by this type of...
by Ali | Dec 17, 2018 | Writing
Reminder: you’ve got the rest of this week (until the end of Friday) to get your hands on Get Writing at “pay what you want” prices. You can pay as little as a dollar to get the whole ebook, plus all the bonus goodies. Another year’s almost...
by Ali | Dec 10, 2018 | Writing
I mentioned in the Aliventures newsletter a couple of weeks ago that I finished NaNo on 23,000 words: not all that close to the 50,000 words I’d been aiming for! So what happened? Several things: I had a bad cold, my kids were poorly, and we had a few unexpected...
