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Latest Blog Posts
Annual Writing Goal Progress in Q3, 2025 (Finished a Novel Draft!)
We’ve got just under three months left of 2025 … how’s your writing going? If it’s going well, hurrah! Keep it up! If you’re struggling with lost momentum (or lost motivation), then check out my Finish Your Novel group. I’m about to open registration next week, on...
Do You Head-Hop? Getting Third Person Point of View Right
When you’re writing in the third person, it’s easy to end up head-hopping. This is when you move from one person’s perspective to another, without quite meaning to. It’s not a deliberate perspective shift, at the end of a scene or at some natural break. Instead, it’s like the point of…
Seven Great Writing Lessons from Seventeen Months of Writers’ Cafe
I launched Writers’ Cafe in May 2024 … and it’s been fantastic to see lots of different writers come through the doors! Through our weekly check-ins and writing hours, it’s been great to get insights into how different writers are tackling a huge range of projects. I...
About Ali
I’m an author (of both fiction and non-fiction) and a writing coach. Aliventures is my homebase online where I share articles about all aspects of writing fiction.
I live in Leeds (UK) with my husband and two kids, and I have degrees in English (MA Cantab, Cambridge University) and Creative & Life Writing (MA, Goldsmiths College, University of London).
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