by Ali | Mar 14, 2025 | Fiction
Is First Person Point of View Right for Your Story? Five Approaches (+ Examples) First person point of view is hugely popular in certain genres: YA and Romance, in particular. It’s also a perfectly fine choice for literary fiction—think David Copperfield (narrated by...
by Ali | Mar 6, 2025 | Fiction
Everything You Need to Know About Developing (and Writing) Characters I’ve covered a lot about developing characters and writing about them, here on Aliventures. I wanted to collect those posts together in one place so you can find them easily. Whether you’re just...
by Ali | Feb 28, 2025 | Fiction
How to Write Character Descriptions That Work (With Examples) This post was first published in February 2017 and extensively updated in February 2025. If you’re writing fiction, whether that’s a short story or a novel, you’ll generally need character descriptions. You...
by Ali | Feb 13, 2025 | Creativity
Five Creative Uses of ChatGPT for Writers (Which Don’t Involve AI Doing the Writing For You!) This post was first published in May 2023 and extensively updated in February 2025. By now, you’ve almost certainly come across (and probably tried out) ChatGPT....
by Ali | Feb 6, 2025 | Fiction
What is a Character Arc? Positive, Negative, and Flat Character Arcs Explained (Plus Examples) This post was first published in April 2019 and extensively updated in February 2025. You’ve probably come across the idea of a “character arc” before now … but...
