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by Ali | Oct 25, 2016 | Blogging
Three Different Ways to Name Your Blog or Website [Pros and Cons] If you’ve ever thought about starting a blog – or a website of any sort – you’ll have run up against a major decision point. It needs a name. Choosing what to call your blog tends to be wrapped up...
by Ali | Oct 17, 2016 | Motivation
Why Being (a Little) Selfish Might Be the Best Thing You Do for Your Writing One of my writer friends – and my fiction editor – Lorna Ferguson wrote some wise words in her email newsletter recently: Praise yourself for what you’ve achieved. Keep your promises to...
by Ali | Oct 3, 2016 | Motivation
How to Take Back Control of Your Time (and Fit More Writing In) Do you spend as much time writing as you want to? Hardly any writers do. Most of us have a lot of non-writing things going on. Depending on the stage of life you’re at, that might be education (school,...
by Ali | Sep 13, 2016 | Freelancing
Freelance Writing: Ten Steps, Tons of Resources This post was first published in 2010, and rewritten/updated in 2016. This is the guide which I wish I’d had when I was getting interested in freelance writing. It’s a step by step walk-through for the adventure...
by Ali | Sep 5, 2016 | Motivation
Should You Be More Business-Like About Your Writing? One piece of common advice in the world of writing is “treat your writing as a business”. But like the idea of striving to write faster and faster … is it really such an equivocally good idea after all? I have...
