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Oct.06.2011
When people ask authors, “Where do you get your ideas?”, authors tend to clam up or worse, get sarcastic - because the only real answer to that is, “Where DON’T I get ideas?” or even more to the point, “How do I turn these ideas OFF?”
The thing is, “Where do you get your ideas?” is not...
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Sep.29.2011
Fall is my favorite season. Maybe it’s that Halloween thing, maybe it’s the “back to school” energy, maybe it’s the Santa Ana winds that were so much a part of my life growing up in Southern California that I made them a character in The Space Between, maybe it’s just that you get a jolt of...
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Jun.18.2011
I am finally catching up on some films I didn’t get around to last year for various massive personal reasons, and I just watched Black Swan, which is a great example of a blatant and shameless visual image system. Look at the fun Darren Aronofsky and his designers have with black and white: note...
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May.16.2011
I have somehow avoided a blog on this topic, but when I am live in a workshop (and as I am writing this new book) I am constantly referring to this basic rule of drama.
So okay, let’s get down to it: the Rule Of Three.
Hmm, how to define this…
Well. It’s a rule of comedy that anything is...
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May.10.2011
I was watching Collateral a few days ago: one of the best mainstream thrillers to come of Hollywood in ten years, I think (by Stuart Beattie. And anyone who says Tom Cruise can’t act is just plain wrong). Besides being maybe the most accurate and weirdly beautiful depiction of LA I’ve seen on film...
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May.06.2011
I accidentally agreed to read some first chapter submissions for a recent conference (or the conference organizer figured out I’m a Pisces and just pretended I agreed to it so I’d have to do it, which actually would work like a charm. Hmm… and that would be just like him, too.)
This is not...
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Oct.02.2009
(No, I don’t mean that kind of toy. Although we need those, too… but all right, that’s another blog.)
The point is, you are going to be working SO HARD for the next two months (and I hate to be the one to break it to you, but for the rest of your lives, as well…) So I really encourage you to...
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Oct.01.2009
I’m sure many here are aware that November is Nanowrimo – National Novel Writing Month. As explained at the official site here, and here and here, the goal of Nanowrimo is to bash through 50,000 words of a novel in a single month.
I could not be more supportive of this idea – it gives focus...
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Jun.04.2009
If you're in the Raleigh/Durham area, I'm reading from and signing THE UNSEEN tonight at one of my favorite bookstores of all time - Quail Ridge Books and Music, at 7:30 pm. I think Quail Ridge must be one of the only bookstores in the country that can pack in dozens of readers for an author event...
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May.31.2009
Three? Four? One of those.
Okay, I could live with waking up and seeing the Hudson River every day.
Staying in Battery Park City, a part of NY I have grown to love; such a great riverwalk and of course, unbelievable restaurants. We had Chinese food of the gods the first night and I think I...
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May.28.2009
The interesting thing about a book coming out is that it's just like a baby (not that I would know, but I hear tell). They come out when they come out - there's nothing you can do about it.
So ready or not, I'm on tour for THE UNSEEN.
In a happy synchronicity, on Tuesday night, Lee Child was...
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May.25.2009
by Alexandra Sokoloff
Hmm, something big is happening this week… if only I could…
Oh, RIGHT!!! The Unseen is out on Tuesday! THIS TUESDAY!!!
The Unseen is a book that has been percolating for a long, long, LONG time.
I'm sure a good number of you recognize these:The Zener ESP cards
I don’t know...
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May.22.2009
Wow, it seems like I’ve been waiting a long time for this. At the same time, I desperately need another month.
Come to think of it, maybe everyone always needs another month.
But here we are, magically....... The Unseen hits bookstores this week, officially on Tuesday, but I am informed it's...
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Sep.22.2008
Best thriller I've seen in ages, excellent on every level - suspense, twists, characters, visuals, acting... smart and sexy as hell and is one of the best movie depictions I've ever seen of how women really are with each other.
I'm a die-hard Brad Anderson fan - he’s the writer/director of...
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Sep.15.2008
So you want to know about screenwriting?
First, a brief background (and of course you can read more in depth at my website, AlexandraSokoloff.com).
Before I sold my first novel, THE HARROWING, I worked steadily as a screenwriter for ten years. I had a pretty typical screenwriting career, actually...
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About Alexandra
I'm a California native and a graduate of U.C. Berkeley, where I majored in theater and minored in everything that Berkeley has a reputation for.
After college I moved to Los Angeles, where I have made an interesting living doing novel adaptations and...
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Amnesty International, NOW