Ask the Author: Bryan Alexander
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Bryan Alexander
Why my mother's family migrated from eastern Europe to the United States.
Bryan Alexander
Auburn walked carefully along the ancient stone gallery, enjoying the solitude and the cryptic carvings.
Until the footsteps echoed from underneath, fast, sure, and ascending.
Until the footsteps echoed from underneath, fast, sure, and ascending.
Bryan Alexander
1. Write write write
WRITE WRITE WRITE WRITE
and keep writing some more.
2. Get feedback on #1.
3. Read read read read
READ READ READ
...you get the idea.
WRITE WRITE WRITE WRITE
and keep writing some more.
2. Get feedback on #1.
3. Read read read read
READ READ READ
...you get the idea.
Bryan Alexander
From my work, actually.
I'm a futurist specializing in higher education. This means I travel, speak, consult, write, present, and make media about where colleges and universities could be going. This, in turn, means I not only conduct a giant amount of research, but also share it with people who when react to those ideas. So I've been involved in a continuous, sprawling conversation with thousands of people.
It's just built up to the point now where I need to get it out, and down.
I'm a futurist specializing in higher education. This means I travel, speak, consult, write, present, and make media about where colleges and universities could be going. This, in turn, means I not only conduct a giant amount of research, but also share it with people who when react to those ideas. So I've been involved in a continuous, sprawling conversation with thousands of people.
It's just built up to the point now where I need to get it out, and down.
Bryan Alexander
Partly by realizing that the ideas I've been thinking and talking about will "blush unseen, / And waste its sweetness on the desert air" unless I get the damned things on paper (or screens).
Partly by remembering the awesome thrill of writing in the past.
And, sometimes, because of the urgency of the topic.
Partly by remembering the awesome thrill of writing in the past.
And, sometimes, because of the urgency of the topic.
Bryan Alexander
A project about the future of American higher ed.
Bryan Alexander
It depends on the day.
Sometimes it's having written, being able to look back at books, articles, chapters I've successfully published. That's always satisfying.
Other times it's the terrific connection with readers. There's nothing as electric as learning that someone somewhere else on Earth has taken the time to look at my writing and think about it.
And during the process of writing, when I'm in the groove, typing out words in a frenzy so heated my fingers and laptop can't type up? Ah, nothing like it.
Sometimes it's having written, being able to look back at books, articles, chapters I've successfully published. That's always satisfying.
Other times it's the terrific connection with readers. There's nothing as electric as learning that someone somewhere else on Earth has taken the time to look at my writing and think about it.
And during the process of writing, when I'm in the groove, typing out words in a frenzy so heated my fingers and laptop can't type up? Ah, nothing like it.
Bryan Alexander
I change the physical situation. At home, that means heading outside to split wood, haul stones, weed the garden, or just walk in the woods. That shift usually unblocks my mind.
Or I use a game, like Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies.
Or I use a game, like Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies.
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