Alexander M Zoltai's Blog Posts Tagged 'authors' (5)

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I’m an author.

I’m published, too.

Oh! For those who don’t know, “writer” Must be applied to those who have written but not yet published. If you read the first two sentences of this post again, you’ll notice that I used “author”, which, according to the received wisdom of those who tell us, with fervor, what we Must do, should have been “writer”. If I’d used writer, then…

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Here I go again, inching out on that limb I keep bending with the weight of speculation…

The title of today’s post could seem useless as a question since folks can point to a multitude of works of fiction that have aided humanity, to varying degrees, in its seemingly never-ending struggle.

To another type of person, the question of writers helping humanity could seem like a ludicrous proposition. Writers of fiction create stories that have characters going…

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“Genre” simply means a kind or type of writing.

Some folks have even criticized the whole concept of genre.

If you look the word up in Wikipedia, you’ll see a questioning of the genre of the very article about genre:…

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Ever lived in Kansas?

Ever wondered how to escape from Kansas?

Our interview is with an author who can answer yes to both those questions :-)

Without further ado, here’s  Simone Benedict.

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Let’s start with where you’re from, how old you are, and is Simone Benedict your real…

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I'll start explaining the title's formula with the word "strange". Its

history shows it meaning, "from elsewhere, foreign, unknown,

unfamiliar".



A Strange Life...



So does reading then writing then publishing then repeating the process create a life that's

unfamiliar, unknown, foreign, and from elsewhere?



Ask any serious writer :-)



The reason I started this little explanatory formula with reading is

because I'm in agreement with the folks… Continue