by Ali | Mar 9, 2020 | Motivation
How Much Writing Can You Realistically Add Into Your Week? You’ve probably heard of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), a worldwide November-long event each year where participants aim to write 50,000 words – a short novel – within a month. In 2018 (for some...
by Ali | Mar 2, 2020 | Creativity
How to Write When … You Don’t Feel Inspired This is the first post in a new monthly series, “How to Write When…” which will come out on the first Monday of each month. Today I wanted to tackle something that comes up for every writer at some point: How do...
by Ali | Jan 9, 2020 | Old post
Happy 2020 … and Upcoming Changes at Aliventures Happy New Year! I hope your decade is off to an excellent beginning. It’s been an exciting start to 2020 for me, because on Monday I started work with Awesome Motive, the company behind a whole lot of...
by Ali | Dec 9, 2019 | Editing
Can You Edit Something You’ve Already Published? We’ve been looking at the importance of editing over the past few weeks and, so far, we’ve only been considering editing your work before publication. It’s also possible – increasingly so in the age of...
by Ali | Dec 2, 2019 | Editing
Five Signs That You Might Be Over-Editing Your Work Editing is a really important part of the writing process – and that’s why we’re in the middle of a four-week series on it. ;-)However … it’s possible to over-edit. And, if you’re at the editing stage of a...
