Even More Sanity

by Anastasia Alexander | Apr 11, 2017 | News, Writing

I just wrote a short story and I love it! I am super excited about it. There are rare times in an author’s life where they sit down to write a story and the story completely takes over them. Consumes them and demands to be written now. This happened to me with...

Mix Messages and Cling-on

by Anastasia Alexander | Feb 20, 2017 | Love in the 21st Century, Marriage, Relationships, Writing

  There are many types of relationships out there. Many types of loves and expressions of loves and the way people relate to one another. I have always found that fascinating and am infatuated to watch the different ways people build marriages, partnerships, and...

Fiction Becoming Reality—Creepy Tales of an Author

by Anastasia Alexander | Jan 18, 2017 | My Books, Uncategorized, Writing

  We all long for something we don’t have. Currently, I am longing for a normal life. One where all the drama unfolds in my fiction and doesn’t spill forth into my real life. I was once at a national SCBWI conference in LA (society of children’s writing and...

Deep Shame: Confessions of the Dyslexic

by Anastasia Alexander | Jan 4, 2017 | embarassement, empowerment, Love in the 21st Century, My Books, self care, Writing

I received an email this morning from a supervisor that the language in something I had written needed to be fixed. There was a lot riding on what I had written, and I had already tried cleaning up the piece the best I could without an editor because my funds had been...

The Complexity of Novel Characters Lives that Intrude into My Life

by Anastasia Alexander | Dec 19, 2016 | empowerment, My Books, Writing

I just finished the rough draft of my novel! It’s such a bittersweet feeling to write the last line and to go then to write another line then have this feeling of there’s nothing more to say. The sense is almost like having a loss. I don’t really want to say goodbye...

Crossroads Entering the Bumpy World of Writing isn’t for the Faint Hearted

by Anastasia Alexander | Nov 23, 2016 | empowerment, Writing

Every one of us comes up to crossroads in our lives. You know those life-defining moments that determines your destiny. Or it maybe a bump in the road that in the long run doesn’t really have that much effect on your life at all, thus proving to be a lot of stress...