by Ali | Jan 7, 2019 | Creativity
How to Juggle All Your Different Writing Projects Do you have several different writing projects on the go? Maybe you have a blog, plus you’re working on a novel. You also have a few short stories that you want to revisit and find markets for, and you’re thinking...
by Ali | Dec 17, 2018 | Motivation
2018: The Best of Aliventures (Have You Missed Any of These Posts?) 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...
by Ali | Dec 10, 2018 | Creativity
Should You Keep Writing Even if It’s Not Fun Any More? 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...
by Ali | Nov 26, 2018 | Marketing
What it Feels Like When Your Writing is Rejected – and How to Bounce Back 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...
by Ali | Nov 20, 2018 | Motivation
It’s Not Just About Making Time: How Can You Find the Energy to Write? 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...
