by Ali | May 23, 2022 | Freelancing
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 | Apr 25, 2022 | Fiction
Five Different Approaches to Developing Characters This post was first published in April 2019 and updated in April 2022. Whether you consider plot to be more important than character or you believe they’re just two sides of the same coin, it’s clear that character...
by Ali | Apr 12, 2022 | Motivation
Staying Motivated to Finish a Novel … or Even a Short Story In the last Aliventures survey the subject of “motivation” came up quite a few times, and one reader specifically asked for a post about staying motivated to finish a short story or novel. I’ll be the first...
by Ali | Apr 4, 2022 | Motivation
How to Get Your Writing Done … When You Have Lots of Other Responsibilities, Too Writing can be tough. It takes time, energy, and focus – all of which are in short supply for many of us. It can be tough getting any writing done around a full-time day job, especially...
by Ali | Mar 28, 2022 | Freelancing
Freelance Content Writing: How to Find Paid Blogging Jobs Perhaps you want to be a freelance writer … but you’re just not sure where to begin. There are lots of different types of freelance writing out there: writing articles for magazines, technical writing,...
