Ask the Author: Adam Alexander
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Adam Alexander
Romeo and Juliet: because any couple who's story has lasted 400 years and countless retellings must have something going for it.
Adam Alexander
I wanted to write a middle-grade sci-fi with some actual "sci" in it. I love reading fantasy and the paranormal but it really bugs me that we live in a world where most newspapers have a daily astrology column but refuse to have a science page even once a week. But for science, most of us wouldn't be here, which is a pretty big deal. So I thought I'd try and give science some kudos and write a fun, fast-moving adventure with science instead of magic. If alien invaders ever land on planet Earth they won't be riding unicorns or waving wands. But they will be terrifyingly good at math! The world's middle-graders need to be ready!!!!
Adam Alexander
Ideas leak into my head pretty much all the time, so inspiration just sort of "happens." My real issue is with perspiration: making the time to sit down at the keyboard and squeeze those ideas onto the page.
Adam Alexander
YA dystopian sci-fi called SAVIORS' SPRING. I finished the first draft a few weeks ago and it's out with my beta readers for feedback. I still have a lot of work to do, but in my own mind the back cover would read something like this:
“The Saviors protect me and keep me from harm.”
The Saviors appeared in the sky on Judgment Day and proclaimed the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth – by force. Now no one remembers that the world was ever different, except, perhaps, for a whisper in the hearts of demons. Under the Saviors’ forbidding guidance no one starves and no one dies of disease and angels keep the peace. But when 15 year old Yasmeen Robertson fishes a drowning boy out of the Chicago River, she sets off a chain of events that threatens to shake the Kingdom of Heaven to its foundations. For Yaz and the boy have stumbled upon something that dredges up questions from the time before Judgment Day. Questions about the identity of the Saviors, their reasons for coming, their plans for humanity. Questions that an archangel of the Saviors will suppress at any cost. An archangel who just happens to be the boy’s uncle.
I'm always on the lookout for good beta readers. So if you'd like to help out drop me a line and I'll send you the manuscript. All feedback welcomed!
“The Saviors protect me and keep me from harm.”
The Saviors appeared in the sky on Judgment Day and proclaimed the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth – by force. Now no one remembers that the world was ever different, except, perhaps, for a whisper in the hearts of demons. Under the Saviors’ forbidding guidance no one starves and no one dies of disease and angels keep the peace. But when 15 year old Yasmeen Robertson fishes a drowning boy out of the Chicago River, she sets off a chain of events that threatens to shake the Kingdom of Heaven to its foundations. For Yaz and the boy have stumbled upon something that dredges up questions from the time before Judgment Day. Questions about the identity of the Saviors, their reasons for coming, their plans for humanity. Questions that an archangel of the Saviors will suppress at any cost. An archangel who just happens to be the boy’s uncle.
I'm always on the lookout for good beta readers. So if you'd like to help out drop me a line and I'll send you the manuscript. All feedback welcomed!
Adam Alexander
I'm really not the person to ask! But, seeing as you did, and with the caveat that I probably don't know what I'm talking about; two things:
(1) Outline your novel before you start. If you don't you'll just end up with a rambling mess of a story.
(2) Write something every day, even if you think it's terrible. It's a lot easier to revise a badly written manuscript than to publish an empty page.
(1) Outline your novel before you start. If you don't you'll just end up with a rambling mess of a story.
(2) Write something every day, even if you think it's terrible. It's a lot easier to revise a badly written manuscript than to publish an empty page.
Adam Alexander
Making stuff up! Can anything be more fun than that?
Adam Alexander
With difficulty!
There are two types of writer's block: the more serious kind, where you're totally bereft of ideas; and the more common variety where you're standing at A, can see Z in the distance but have no idea how to get there.
If I'm bereft of ideas, there's just no point worrying about it - that only makes it worse! I simply get on with my life in the hope that sooner or later something will pop into my head. So far, I haven't been disappointed!
On the other hand, if I don't know HOW to write something, I just make myself put something - anything - down on paper. It doesn't matter how bad it is (and it's usually pretty awful): the mere effort of writing usually shakes the block loose and the ideas will start to flow. In all honesty, some of the passages I'm most proud of started with me just forcing myself to write - plus lots of tea!
There are two types of writer's block: the more serious kind, where you're totally bereft of ideas; and the more common variety where you're standing at A, can see Z in the distance but have no idea how to get there.
If I'm bereft of ideas, there's just no point worrying about it - that only makes it worse! I simply get on with my life in the hope that sooner or later something will pop into my head. So far, I haven't been disappointed!
On the other hand, if I don't know HOW to write something, I just make myself put something - anything - down on paper. It doesn't matter how bad it is (and it's usually pretty awful): the mere effort of writing usually shakes the block loose and the ideas will start to flow. In all honesty, some of the passages I'm most proud of started with me just forcing myself to write - plus lots of tea!
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