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Wednesday, June 29, 2011 8:55:07 AM
Alma Alexander wrote a blog post titled Midnight at Spanish Gardens:
Alma said, "What If … ? What if you could make a different choice at a critical moment in your life? What if you had married someone else, turned right instead of left, had taken that job you rejected? What if you had been born a man instead of a woman? My..." more
Friday, May 6, 2011 3:16:01 PM
Alma Alexander wrote a blog post titled Stories, stories everywhere:
Alma said, "One of the perennial items tossed at every living writer in almost every interview is “Where do you get your ideas?” One well-known writer famously provided an address for an Ideas Shop in Schenectady (and had people TAKE HIM SERIOUSLY)...." more
Thursday, May 5, 2011 7:33:42 PM
Alma Alexander wrote a blog post titled Talisman Books:
Alma said, "Alison Goodman defines a Talisman Book as “one of those novels that you read over and over again, a book that seems to resonate through you, that wards off the disappointments and insecurities of everyday life.” My Talisman Books are the..." more
Thursday, April 28, 2011 12:49:56 AM
Alma Alexander wrote a blog post titled Coming This Fall… RIVER, the Anthology:
Alma said, "It begins. Somewhere. An insignificant trickle of water that grows and changes, gathers a history, becomes the River, and finally reaches the sea, and vanishes into its vastness. The River. Full of life. Full of mystery. Full of stories. Rivers have..." more
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 11:10:26 PM
Alma Alexander wrote a blog post titled What is it about writers and notebooks?:
Alma said, "I’ve always been in love with notebooks. When I was younger it was hardcover notebooks in which I would write ENTIRE NOVELS, by hand, often in pencil. Later, especially when I graduated to the computer as a primary writing tool, they became..." more
Sunday, March 20, 2011 4:33:02 PM
Alma Alexander wrote a blog post titled Seeing the story:
Alma said, "write4kids Editor’s note: Audrey is a 13-year-old student from California who is currently working on her own novel between school, sports and choir. She’s also a Contributing Editor to Write4Kids, focusing on middle grade and YA..." more
Thursday, January 13, 2011 6:27:03 PM
Alma Alexander wrote a blog post titled Happy Birthday, Professor:
Alma said, "I don’t know when I first REALLy encountered J.R.R.Tolkien, and Middle Earth. They have simply been a part of my life forever. I fell into “Lord of the Rings” and it closed over my head, and I’ve been breathing it through..." more
Wednesday, January 5, 2011 12:31:14 PM
Alma Alexander wrote a blog post titled Here’s to great editors:
Alma said, "I suffer from occasional attacks of chutzpah. Back in the mid-eighties, London Magazine, the grand, the venerable, had been in more-or-less constant publication for SEVERAL CENTURIES. It had a Reputation. It had a Renown. I was in my..." more
Wednesday, January 5, 2011 12:31:13 PM
Alma Alexander wrote a blog post titled Imposter Syndrome:
Alma said, "I’ve had a bunch of writer friends admit to falling prey to this thing called the Impostor Syndrome at least once in the course of their writing lives and careers. It’s the perennial “I’m here under false pretenses – there..." more
Friday, November 5, 2010 10:45:01 PM
Alma Alexander wrote a blog post titled Espresso Magic:
Alma said, "I wrote my first poem — about a broken alarm clock — when I was five. I’ve has been writing about life, the universe and everything ever since — in novels, poems, short stories and, in the past few years, hundreds of blog..." more
Sunday, October 24, 2010 4:50:32 PM
Alma Alexander wrote a blog post titled The comfort of a book:
Alma said, "Feeling a little under the weather, I took a day off and sat down with a cup of herbal tea … and a book. After I had finished the book (its spine cracked with love, its pages beginning to age, its shape and weight comfortable in my hand) I went..." more
Sunday, September 19, 2010 4:26:55 PM
Alma Alexander wrote a blog post titled Fences:
Alma said, "I was driving along suburban roads when I was suddenly struck… by fences. There’s a little house on a corner in my town, older and less than perfectly cared for, with a short picket fence more decoration than any kind of impediment to..." more
Tuesday, September 7, 2010 3:49:04 PM
Alma Alexander wrote a blog post titled When I was a teen…:
Alma said, "I am posting online a novel I wrote as a teenager — 30 years ago — and will rewrite it, a chapter at a time. When I was 14, I wrote a 200,000 word novel in longhand, in pencil, three years after I had learned English. That first novel..." more
Thursday, September 2, 2010 4:43:55 PM
Alma Alexander wrote a blog post titled 10 Authorial Confessions:
Alma said, "10 Authorial Confessions 1. There are times that I have sat and watched words which *I am typing* appear on the screen in front of my eyes… and not recognized them. That’s how much my characters – or sometimes just my story – take over..." more
Friday, August 6, 2010 3:10:52 PM
Alma Alexander wrote a blog post titled On Magic:
Alma said, "Fantasy is a lens which sharpens and clarifies the sliver of reality viewed through it; magic is one of the tools used to accomplish this. It’s a powerful tool and often it is a threatening one, because there is the propensity to react against..." more
Friday, July 30, 2010 7:17:47 PM
Alma Alexander wrote a blog post titled In Defense of Slow:
Alma said, "Just the other day an editor I like and respect – and have sold several stories to – wrote this on her blog: “Some good stories but not good enough to send up the line. Most stories start too slow to catch my eye… if I’ve past..." more
Monday, July 19, 2010 5:15:36 PM
Alma Alexander wrote a blog post titled Stories Readers Tell About My Stories:
Alma said, "One of the things that I had simply never factored into the equation when I started publishing books… was people writing to me, from here there and everywhere, people whose only connection to me was the story that I had written, and they had..." more
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 2:41:08 PM
Alma Alexander wrote a blog post titled Stories whispering in our walls:
Alma said, "I am a book collector. My husband is another one. When we got married, he already had a considerable collection of books; and when we moved from Florida to Washington state fully two thirds of our moving boxes were stuffed with books, probably 1,500..." more
Wednesday, June 16, 2010 1:22:11 PM
Alma Alexander wrote a blog post titled The letter I should have written a long time ago:
Alma said, "Dear Lynne Reid Banks, I have always written. Always. I’ve made up stories since I knew what making up stories meant. I’ve scribbled them down in countless notebooks over the years, in longhand, in pen or pencil, and then after I’d..." more
Tuesday, May 25, 2010 11:56:40 PM
Alma Alexander wrote a blog post titled The Mything Link:
Alma said, "As a guest blogger on the blog [Myth, the Universe, and Everything] of writer Alana Joli Abbott, I recently discussed the mythworld: —- There is a certain line of descent when it comes to things literary. A regression would take us from the..." more
Friday, May 14, 2010 1:17:19 AM
Alma Alexander wrote a blog post titled The long and the short of it:
Alma said, "I am primarily a long-form writer. I’m a natural novelist. I tend to write long and lush and paint a wide horizon using a broad brush (which leaves me room, LOTS of room, to go back in and fill in the fine detail. And yet… and yet…. In the..." more
Wednesday, May 5, 2010 3:41:25 PM
Alma Alexander wrote a blog post titled The Eternal Questions, Part 2:
Alma said, "Questions are the building blocks of writing. The answers to the questions that you ask are what builds your story, particularly the famous 5 Ws and an H — Who, What, Where, When, Why, How. Earlier we discussed the character-centric questions,..." more
Monday, April 19, 2010 6:47:12 AM
Alma Alexander wrote a blog post titled Learning to Read:
Alma said, "When I was just a little girl, my mother used to read to me. This was not unusual – lots of little girls have their parents read to them when they’re about to tuck them in for the night. Stories are so much a foundation on which our..." more
Tuesday, April 6, 2010 5:09:40 PM
Alma Alexander wrote a blog post titled Pros at Cons:
Alma said, "At one convention, maybe a year or so ago, this was an actual title of a panel I was on – Pros at Cons. The idea was to explore what a professional (writer, or artist) actually DOES at a convention, how they might approach it differently from the..." more
Sunday, December 11, 2011 1:42:24 PM
Alma Alexander wrote a blog post titled It’s Christmas time… have a story…:
Alma said, "This one I wrote a while ago, and it was snaffled up at the time in several different versions by various eccleisiastical markets who loved the Christmas angle and just wen crazy with it. It was perhaps not themost widely distributed short story I..." more