Ask the Author: Alan S. Grant
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Alan S. Grant
No books per se, but I'm starting to look for new styles within the fantasy Genre.
Alan S. Grant
The answer is on the tip of my tongue... seriously... I just can't think of it. Nuts. Best go for a walk and enjoy some scenery. Or maybe I'll see if I can bake that chocolate cake. Perhaps a small nap....
Alan S. Grant
Knowing that you are able to transport the reader to somewhere else, even if only for a short while, and share a new world with them.
Alan S. Grant
Always be willing to dream for dreams are the stuff stories are made of.
Know that there is going to be a lot of hard work. No story ever survives the first draft unchanged. And if yours did and the editor could find nothing wrong, bottle that Mojo and sell it!
Accept there will be criticism, and a lot of it will be constructive. Writing is the exposing of your inner mind, something few people can complete... and conveying the inner mind to other people is hard, but awesome.
Accept you will make mistakes - this is how we grow. Seriously, some of my early stories are really, really, really bad... but from them, I learned.
Know that there is going to be a lot of hard work. No story ever survives the first draft unchanged. And if yours did and the editor could find nothing wrong, bottle that Mojo and sell it!
Accept there will be criticism, and a lot of it will be constructive. Writing is the exposing of your inner mind, something few people can complete... and conveying the inner mind to other people is hard, but awesome.
Accept you will make mistakes - this is how we grow. Seriously, some of my early stories are really, really, really bad... but from them, I learned.
Alan S. Grant
The fourth book of the Alexandra Pine series is being drafted now... well... as of late April 2017... and the third book, Alexandra Pine and the Hidden Valley is awaiting it's cover design.
Alan S. Grant
The world we live in is so very rich and diverse. It is all to easy to lower your head and ignore the beauty, or become enmeshed in the strife and scandals that surround us.
By looking at the world, stopping and taking a breath, and changing your view, things coalesce in ways you might not have imagined. And when you see that moment, there can be a need to capture it.
By looking at the world, stopping and taking a breath, and changing your view, things coalesce in ways you might not have imagined. And when you see that moment, there can be a need to capture it.
Alan S. Grant
A close friend of mine lives in Alaska and told me about beings that exist in the wilds, unseen by humans. It fit nicely with the narrative of the other books and drove me to learn what I could, to study the wilds of Alaska and to expand out into the most northern state of the US.
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