You can find all the past posts on Aliventures here:
2025
- (19 Dec) Annual Writing Goal Progress in Q4, 2024 – What’s Worked This Year and What Hasn’t? (Motivation)
- (07 Nov) Writing Voice: Finding Yours and Loosening Up When Your Writing Seems Stilted or Dry (Creativity)
- (27 Jun) How to Wrap Up a Writing Session Effectively – and Leave Yourself Ready for Next Time (Creativity)
- (28 Mar) Turning Your Inner Critic into an Inner Coach … and Growing Your Writing Confidence (Motivation)
- (22 Feb) Seven Useful Tasks to Tackle as a Freelancer When You’re Waiting for More Client Work (Freelancing)
- (30 Nov) How to Set the Stage Now for Writing Success in 2024: Five Things to Do During December (Creativity)
- (23 Nov) Developing Your Creative Process as a Writer (Instead of Working Against Yourself) (Creativity)
- (09 Nov) Morning vs Night Writing Sessions: Which is Right for You … and How Can You Tell? (Creativity)
- (24 Mar) Four Powerful Ways to Protect Your Writing Time (From Yourself and From Other People) (Motivation)
- (12 Jan) My Annual Fiction Writing Goals for 2023 (Plus Goal-Setting and Goal-Adjusting Tips) (Motivation)
- (17 Nov) Never Miss a Deadline: Seven Foolproof Techniques to Stay on Top of Your Writing Assignments (Freelancing)
- (04 Apr) How to Get Your Writing Done … When You Have Lots of Other Responsibilities, Too (Motivation)
- (22 Jun) How to Be a Writer: Ten Important Steps to Becoming a Writer (and Living Your Dreams) (Motivation)
- (14 Jun) Get Re-Excited About Your Writing Project: Seven Ways to Stay Motivated to Write (Motivation)
- (22 Jun) Three Things to Do Before You Start Freelance Writing … and Three Things Not to Bother With (Freelancing)
- (13 Apr) Best Software for Writers: Seven Apps to Help You Get More From Your Writing Time (Creativity)
- (07 Oct) Seven Reasons to Try Freelance Writing (Even if You’ve Never Considered it Before) (Freelancing)
- (18 Mar) Allow Yourself Time to Write … Even if There Are “More Important” Things to Do (Creativity)
- (04 Jul) Do You Need to Take (Yet Another) Writing Course? Here’s Why it Might be a Bad Idea (Creativity)
- (09 Jan) How I Wrote More Fiction in 2016 than In Any Other Year (Despite Two Small Children) (Motivation)
- (07 Nov) A Quick Guide to Formatting Your Microsoft Word Manuscript for Amazon’s Kindle (Publishing)
- (16 Jul) Are Self-Publishing and Traditional Publishing Both Offering a Next-to-Impossible Dream? (Publishing)
- (08 Jan) How to Create a Writing, Publishing and Marketing Plan for the Year [Includes Template] (Creativity)
- (20 Sep) What’s Lurking in Your Desk Drawer? Four Authors’ Success Stories [Guest Post] (Motivation)
- (19 Jun) BlogWorld #3: Michael Hyatt’s Session on “Platform: Get Noticed in a Noisy World” (Marketing)
- (05 Jun) How Your eBook Provides You With Marketing and Relationship Building Opportunities (Marketing)
About
I’m Ali Luke, and I live in Leeds in the UK with my husband and two children.
Aliventures is where I help you master the art, craft and business of writing.
Start Here
If you're new, welcome! These posts are good ones to start with:
Can You Call Yourself a “Writer” if You’re Not Currently Writing?
The Three Stages of Editing (and Nine Handy Do-it-Yourself Tips)
My Novels
My contemporary fantasy trilogy is available from Amazon. The books follow on from one another, so read Lycopolis first.
You can buy them all from Amazon, or read them FREE in Kindle Unlimited.