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Aliventures Summer Break 2024 – 10 Posts to Catch Up On
It's summer time here in the UK and I'm taking a few weeks off from blogging. I'll be enjoying a trip to the North Wales coast, plus lots of adventures with my kids! I'll be back when they start the new school year in early September. If you've got a bit of downtime...
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Ten Sentence-Level Mistakes to Watch Out for When Editing Your Fiction [With Examples]
When you’re editing fiction, whether it’s a short story or an epic novel, you need to edit on several different levels. There’s the full-scale revision stage: where you go from first draft to second draft, and probably lose or gain some characters, cut or add a bunch of material, and make…
How to Get Your Characters Right As You Rewrite Your Novel
When you’re reworking your first or second draft, you’ll likely be making some changes relating to your characters and their characterisation (how they come across on the page). If you didn’t quite nail your characters’ personalities or their character arcs during the...
About Ali
I’m an author (of both fiction and non-fiction) and a freelancer. Aliventures is my homebase online where I share articles on the art, craft and business of writing.
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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