Ask the Author: Alex Howard
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Alex Howard
I think I'd travel to Narnia's Lone Islands and hang out with Aslan. Other than that, it'd have to be the fields of Wind in the Willows or the waterways of Swallows and Amazons!
Alex Howard
Ah, well, that's a mystery.......
Alex Howard
A recent date night to a restaurant on Candlemaker Row, Edinburgh. That and life experience, good and bad, and the world's ever-changing relationship with social media.
Alex Howard
Travel is a big one for me. And exploring a new space, and its features, even if that space is utterly banal like a road you've walked past a million times and never been down. The extraordinary is hidden in everything.
Alex Howard
I have a novel idea, and a Young Adult idea jostling for priority in my mind. I'm working on them both steadily.
Alex Howard
Start small. And get stuff up online, so you can cultivate an audience. Write day and night, on a plane or secretly in the office. Don't be hard on yourself for being a fraud: you're doing a very important job in being a writer. And take heart from the mini breakthroughs along the way; they are what count. Behind each *big* breakthrough is a whole series of small victories, be they retweets from someone you admire, or a tiny magazine getting back to you saying they'd be happy to publish your work.
Alex Howard
Being able to do what you love. And spying on people in shops picking up your book, dipping into it, and laughing (yes, it did happen once!)
Alex Howard
Travel, and very very strong coffee.
Alex Howard
That'd have to be Heathcliff and Cathy from Wuthering Heights. A modern day option might have to be Dexter and Emma from One Day.
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