Say Again?

There are words and phrases that become so much a part of us, we don't realize how special they are when we use them. When I sit down to write, most of the time I don't have to consciously think about what a character's voice sounds like. I don't mean what the timbre...

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A Daily Blog?

Over the last eighteen months or so, I've given up on blogging. There were a few reasons for this departure, some personal, some professional. I've been focusing on other things, and the blog has fallen… Well, I won't say behind since there wasn't a schedule to which...

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Shadows… again?

Update: As of October 7, 2017, the series relaunch has begun! Please visit www.authoralexcollins.com for more details. Wow, it’s been a while! I’m so sorry – I always have good intentions about not neglecting this blog. Someday, I’ll get better. Maybe. Eh… probably...

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A Quick Note from Molly Campbell

A Quick Note from Molly Dear Awesome and Fabulous Readers, Molly Campbell here. I’m getting ready to run away from home, and I didn’t want to just up and leave without letting you know I was going. See, life isn’t working out quite the way I’d hoped it would. My job...

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Is it Just Fiction – G.M. Barlean

For the first installment in this series featuring author Jeff Brackett, please click here.  In this digital age, friendships are started and grow over great distances like never before. I have a lot of friends who are authors, but I've never met them - we live too...

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Is It Just Fiction?

I’m getting deep in here today. I’m going into the psychology behind my characters. Not the psychology of my characters, but…  you’ll see. The idea came about as I was trying to figure out how in the world to get in the head of the protagonist for a potential new...

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