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I’m Ali Luke and I’m delighted to help you explore your love of writing.
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Recent Blog Posts
Seven Crucial First Steps for Your Writing Career
This post was first published in July 2014 and updated in May 2022. Have you ever thought about – or daydreamed about – turning your writing into a career? Perhaps you’ve already made some progress or perhaps you're feeling stuck, not sure where to begin. The good...
Five Different Approaches to Developing Characters
This post was first published in April 2019 and updated in April 2022. Whether you consider plot to be more important than character or you believe they’re just two sides of the same coin, it’s clear that character matters. Readers want characters who are engaging and...
Staying Motivated to Finish a Novel … or Even a Short Story
In the last Aliventures survey the subject of “motivation” came up quite a few times, and one reader specifically asked for a post about staying motivated to finish a short story or novel. I’ll be the first to admit – this is tough! My unfinished short stories and...
About Ali
I’m an author (of both fiction and non-fiction) and a freelancer, and though you’ll find me writing for a lot of the biggest writing blogs out there, 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, from Cambridge University) and Creative & Life Writing (MA, from Goldsmiths College, University of London).
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