Ask the Author: Jinny Alexander
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Jinny Alexander
I'm mostly working on writing for my MA. The current module is Life Writing, which is a new direction for me to explore, but I'm also working on my new novel which links on to the life writing a bit as I'm drawing from events from my childhood. It started out with intentions of being a fairytale revisited but I think it's going to take a different turn. I'm quite excited about where it's going. After that, I'll need to focus on the third Jess O'Malley mystery, for which I've already got an idea sketched out.
Jinny Alexander
I'm currently doing an MA so must of my reading list is related to that. I'm also reading through many of my co-2022 debut authors' books as they come up for pre-release review reads and I'm very excited so far by what's coming in 2022. It's going to be a good year for books.
Jinny Alexander
The burning mystery in my life this week is, 'What happened to my pumpkin patch?' This feels like something I need Jess O'Malley (the protagonist from my cosy mystery series) to come and solve.
Jinny Alexander
Get myself a deadline!
Seriously, I am a bit of a procrastinator, so there's nothing like an urgent deadline to get me working.
I usually write my novels in a very linear way, but recently, while working on my third novel I hit a bit of a block. For the first time ever, I started writing completely out of order - I put aside the bit I was stuck on and wrote a chapter that I knew had to come into the story. It did the trick. I also made better notes from that point on, and wrote chapter outlines onto the cork board in Scrivener, which allowed me to keep writing out of order and jiffle chapters arouund accordingly.
Seriously, I am a bit of a procrastinator, so there's nothing like an urgent deadline to get me working.
I usually write my novels in a very linear way, but recently, while working on my third novel I hit a bit of a block. For the first time ever, I started writing completely out of order - I put aside the bit I was stuck on and wrote a chapter that I knew had to come into the story. It did the trick. I also made better notes from that point on, and wrote chapter outlines onto the cork board in Scrivener, which allowed me to keep writing out of order and jiffle chapters arouund accordingly.
Jinny Alexander
Nope. Horror is too scary.
Jinny Alexander
The one I will probably get on with next was inspired by some writing carved into the trunks of some old beech trees on the edge of my garden. It will almost certainly become a retelling of an old fairytale. I'm not saying more, as I'll look daft if it goes off in a completely different direction.
Jinny Alexander
I read The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern last year and would love to visit the world of her circus - not the behind the scenes bits, but the actual circus. There are plenty of other fictional worlds I'd love to visit, but this is my current favourite. I love circus anyway, but the one is this book is truly magical. I wish I had the imagination to create such a well-crafted fictional world as Erin Morgenstern has done here. Her setting in The Starless Sea is equally beautiful, but too sinister to visit in real life.
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