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...
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by Ali | Dec 3, 2018 | Writing
If you freelance – whether that’s writing, editing, mentoring, or offering any other type of writing service to clients – there will come a time when you want to raise your rates. This is a normal, and inevitable, part of doing business. But it can also be something...
by Ali | Nov 26, 2018 | Writing
Note: This post was first published in July 2012 and updated in November 2018. One reader asked me: “I’d like to know what it’s like to get rejected by a publisher or several (if that’s ever happened to you) and how you bounce back from it.” It has indeed happened to...
by Ali | Nov 20, 2018 | Writing
Making time to write can be tough. Whenever I ask people about their biggest writing challenges, “finding time” usually comes top of the list. For most of us, though, it’s not that hard to make time. Get up half an hour earlier, write in your lunch...
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...
