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...
by Ali | Nov 12, 2018 | Fiction
Eight Easy(ish) Ways to Finish the First Draft of Your Novel I’m doing NaNoWriMo this month – maybe you are too? (For the uninitiated, “NaNoWriMo” stands for National Novel Writing Month. It happens every November, where people all over the world try to write a 50,000...
by Ali | Oct 15, 2018 | Motivation
Twelve Excuses Writers Make (and How to Overcome Them) What are your excuses for not writing? I’m sure they’re good ones, because I have plenty of good excuses, too! And I don’t want you to think I’m being dismissive or unkind about your excuses – our reasons for not...
by Ali | Oct 1, 2018 | Creativity
Welcome Back to Aliventures: Here’s What’s New It’s taken me a little longer than I’d hoped … but the new Aliventures is now here! Hurrah! (And welcome back.) 🙂 If you’re reading this on the website, rather than in your inbox or RSS reader, you’ll...
