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Hello!
I'm a storyteller first. Everything else (the coaching, the teaching, the frankly unreasonable number of planners) orbits around that.
I've written 18 novels as Ali Archer and Ali Noble: YA fantasy, science fiction, and inspirational romantic suspense. One hit the USA Today bestseller list. Others won awards and were beautifully reviewed—and found a few fierce fans. I love those books. They taught me the most.
Along the way I became a certified life and happiness coach through The Life Coach School, because I kept noticing the same thing: the hardest part of writing a book usually isn't the book. It's the writer.
Why I built this studio
For years I taught Save the Cat, and I loved it. I still do. But I watched writer after writer fill in every beat and still end up with a story that didn't move anyone, because nothing on the page showed how the hero changed.
So I built something that would. The Fire Cycle is a story structure centered on your hero's arc: what they believe, what it costs them, and who they become by the end. It's the beat sheet I wish I'd had.
Then I noticed something else. The writers who finished weren't the fastest ones. They were the ones who built a writing life they could actually live in. That's the other half of what we do here.
What I believe about writing
Depth over speed.
A book that resonates is worth more than three that don't.
Resonance over volume.
You don't have to be louder. You have to be truer.
A sustainable career over hustle.
Your writing life shouldn't eat the rest of your life.
Learn to see structure in your own days, and you'll write it better on the page.
Head in the clouds, feet on the ground. That's the whole studio in one line.
Your life is full of story.
The Storyteller's Way
Everything I teach fits into one method I call The Storyteller's Way:
The Writer's Questbook. A yearlong planner that treats your writing life like a story, with you as the hero. Button: Get Act I free
Live it.
The Fire Cycle. Story structure that tracks how your hero changes, not just what happens next.
Write it.
StoryCamp is a small coaching circle where we do this together, every week.
Become it.
Thank you for visiting!
USA Today bestselling author · 18 published novels · Certified Life & Happiness Coach, The Life Coach School
· Speaker on creativity, courage, and living without regret · Former podcast host
Let this be part of your path.
If there's a story that won't leave you alone, I'd love to help you finish it, and to enjoy your life while you do.
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Looking for my novels? Find them at alicross.com.