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Writing Books — What’s On WriterAlina’s Bookshelf?

Writing Books — What’s On WriterAlina’s Bookshelf?

I’ve been going through my writing books lately extracting inspiration and learning from specific books. I’m reminded of various aspects of writing from the technical to the creative as I read. This process has inspired me to share with you what books, audiobooks, and videos that are on my bookshelf. Most of what I have I’ve only read or “gone through” once, but there are several that I’ve gone…

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September 2017 Affirmation of the Month

September 2017 Affirmation of the Month

Hello, wonderful readers! It’s September 2017 and WriterAlina is back. Finally!

I realize that it’s been forever since I’ve last posted on my blog. This last year has challenged me in many ways personally and professionally. I’ve spent a lot of time focusing on writing stories and developing my craft as a storyteller. At first, I felt that I was spending too much time blogging and not enough time…

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WriterAlina’s Writing Plan for 2016

WriterAlina’s Writing Plan for 2016

WriterAlina’s Writing Plan for 2016

It’s that time again to create and revise my writing plan for 2016.

A lot has happened in my personal life this year, some of it encouraged my writing and some of it hindered, but I’m ready to take my writing career into my own hands instead of allowing life to dictate what I can and cannot do.

My new year’s resolution is “Take my writing career seriously and…

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Happy Holidays & Create Your Writing Plan

Happy Holidays & Create Your Writing Plan

Happy Holidays everyone! Whether you celebrate Hanukkah, Yule Solstice, Christmas, Kwanzaa, or simply enjoy the commercial holiday spirit and family gathering, I wish you happy holidays and a bright, successful New Year.

May 2016 bring you great writing inspiration, success, and satisfaction. And don’t just make new years resolutions that are easily broken, create a writing plan that will help…

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WriterAlina 3rd Quarter Review 2015

WriterAlina 3rd Quarter Review 2015

Part 1: WriterAlina is Back

Hello everyone, I’m sorry I’ve been MIA for the last few of weeks on my blog and almost non existent on Facebook for the last two months. August and September have been super busy for me and I am sad to report that my goal of writing every day totally crashed and burned into smithereens.  *sigh* I wrote like a mad person in July in anticipation of not being able to…

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7 Outlining Strategies

There are all kinds of strategies out there for outlining a story, some more complicated than others. Here are 7 Outlining strategies that I’ve used myself with varying success, but each of these have been used successfully by several of my writer friends. I hope this inspires you to try something new and see if any of them work out for you.

Making Lists

This is one of my primary outlining…

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WriterAlina Writing Plan 2015 1st Quarter Review

WriterAlina Writing Plan 2015 1st Quarter Review

Hi everyone,

I figured it would be helpful to give account of my business plan progress for 2015. Maybe this could help you to understand my writing process, but mostly this will help keep me accountable for what I say I’ going to do. So this is an update of my successes and failures during the first three months of the year and how I’ve changed my plan for the next three months.

Here were my…

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