Alexander Dunford

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    • Important Subscription Update

      Important Subscription Update

      A blog written for writers by a writer—twice published.

      Alexander Dunford

      June 16, 2022
      Writing
    • A Nod To Derry’s Son

      A Nod To Derry’s Son

      Derry, New Hampshire was the longtime home of Robert Frost. This poem is in dedication to my favorite poetry book: North of Boston, and his poem October.

      Alexander Dunford

      May 25, 2022
      Poetry, Writing
      Christian Author, Christian Poet, Derry New Hampshire, New Hampshire Writer, Poems about New Hampshire, Poetry, Robert Frost, Robert Frost Fans
    • On Writing: Stopping and Noticing

      On Writing: Stopping and Noticing

      Trust me…, stopping and noticing the details around you is life’s most generative experience, not only will your writing improve, but so will your mental health.

      Alexander Dunford

      May 19, 2022
      Writing, Writing Tips
      Christian Author, Damaris Coulter, Finding Inspiration for stories, helping others, how to write, New Zealand Escorts, Photography, prostitution, Stop and Notice, Wolfeboro Public Library, Writing
    • I’m Published in The Closed Eye Open

      I’m Published in The Closed Eye Open

      Hi, friends and readers, subscribers and first-time-site clickers. I have big, beautiful news to share with you. I published in The Closed Eye Open, which is an impressive literary journal boasting beautiful art and great writing. If you’re looking for something new, creatively speaking, to delight and inspire you, I recommend reading The Closed Eye […]

      Alexander Dunford

      February 23, 2022
      Art, Poetry, Writing, Writing Tips
      Christian Poets Today, Christian Writer, Modern Poetry, New Hampshire Writer, Newly Published Poem, W. Alexander
    • Revision, Start Learning to Love It

      Revision, Start Learning to Love It

      Anyone can write. Few revise well.

      Alexander Dunford

      February 2, 2022
      Grammar, Writing, Writing Tips
      fiction, How to revise, How to write a novel, How to write fiction, I want to write a novel, revision, revision tips, Why revision, writing a novel, writing fiction
    • Writing

      Writing

      I’m starting 2022 intending to grow. Help me grow as an artist and influencer and follow.

      Alexander Dunford

      January 28, 2022
      Writing, Writing Tips
      Christian Author, graduating college, how to write, I'm published, publish, Who is W. Alexander, Writer, Writing, writing a book, writing is a business
    • Escape Second Death

      Escape Second Death

      “Worms tunnel the clay and mud and brains and veins of Man’s forgotten pains.”

      Alexander Dunford

      January 22, 2022
      Christian, Poetry
      Dark Poetry, Death, N.L. Blandford, Poem, Poems about death, Poetry, Published Author, Published Poet, Writer
    • Forlorn Light: Virginia Woolf Found Poems, by Nazifa Islam

      Forlorn Light: Virginia Woolf Found Poems, by Nazifa Islam

      Several poems left me exposed and shivering, as if I were in front of a mirror which revealed what’s inside the reader. The images I discovered moved me to tears. And, the more I studied, the more I understood myself.

      Alexander Dunford

      January 20, 2022
      Book Review, Poetry
      Book Review, Forlorn Light, Nazifa Islam, Nazifa Islam Poetry, Poet, Poetry Review, Virginia Woolf, Writer
    • The Day god Died: Chapters I & II

      The Day god Died: Chapters I & II

      “…I hated him and his kind. I hated his affluence, his expensive clothes, his chiseled looks, and the arrogance he was born too. But most of all, I hated the power he held over me, his assumption of authority, and the truth of his superiority.”

      Alexander Dunford

      December 20, 2021
      History, Literature, Writing, Writing Tips
      Ancient Egypt story, Christian Author, Egypt historical fiction, Emerging author, how to write, Writer, Writing, writing a book, writing fiction
    • One Thankful Adventure

      One Thankful Adventure

      Tell your friends about this live writing experience.

      Alexander Dunford

      November 27, 2021
      Family
    • To Live Is To Never Aim For Gentle Death

      To Live Is To Never Aim For Gentle Death

      The purpose of life is not to arrive safely into old-age, but to live presently.

      Alexander Dunford

      October 19, 2021
      Family, Writing
    • Special Announcement: Watch Me Live Tomorrow

      Special Announcement: Watch Me Live Tomorrow

      Join Me At 10:00 am on Instagram Live

      Alexander Dunford

      October 15, 2021
      Writing
    • Portrayals of Commodus, From the Senate Floor to Hollywood

      Portrayals of Commodus, From the Senate Floor to Hollywood

      “Commodus is often portrayed as an inept, spoilt, cowardly, and mentally ill man. None of these are true.”

      Alexander Dunford

      September 21, 2021
      Academic, History, Writing
      Commodus, Essay, Gladiator, History, Movie, Roman Emperor, Roman History, Rome
    • A Life Lived for Art Is Never A Life Wasted

      A Life Lived for Art Is Never A Life Wasted

      To write well, you have to write what-you-know, and your knowledge about what motivates, scares, angers, and affirms the individual person are the brushes you will use to paint page after page.

      Alexander Dunford

      August 27, 2021
      Art, Writing, Writing Tips
      how to write, How to write fiction, Published Author, W. Alexander, Writing, writing fiction
    • Excerpt: A Current Project.

      Excerpt: A Current Project.

      “Ah, the jest is up.”

      Alexander Dunford

      August 17, 2021
      Literature, Writing
      Writing
    • My Writing: A Historical Fiction Sample

      My Writing: A Historical Fiction Sample

      “You won’t need the Gods or anyone else once we’re done. You will have servants to wait on your wives, horses for your sons, and hunger only a bad dream.”

      Alexander Dunford

      July 16, 2021
      Literature, Writing
      fiction, Historical Fiction, Novella, Short Story
    • Big Moments Count

      Big Moments Count

      “it felt like those moments in life where we sense magic; those days where every bone in your body feels good, and there is laughter and love overflowing, and you know how great that feels. I feel that.”

      Alexander Dunford

      July 13, 2021
      Family, Literature, Poetry, Writing
      Published Poet
    • Worlds Apart, by W. Alexander

      Worlds Apart, by W. Alexander

      A Short Story “…I don’t consider your happiness when I call. You are needed, and you are able, therefore you must go.”

      Alexander Dunford

      July 10, 2021
      Art, Christian, Literature, Writing
      fiction, how to write a short story, New Short Story, Short Story
    • A Rambling Treatise on The Craft

      A Rambling Treatise on The Craft

      Nothing arouses me more than when a reader, as if hoodwinked by a magician, thinks I have talent.

      Alexander Dunford

      July 4, 2021
      Grammar, Writing, Writing Tips
      How to write a book, Writing Process
    • Paradise and Achievement: A Week in Acadia

      Paradise and Achievement: A Week in Acadia

      I climbed summits and traversed ocean waters.

      Alexander Dunford

      June 21, 2021
      Family, Nature, Poetry, Writing
      Acadia National Park, Buy Book, Camping, Christian Author, Family Vacation, Published Author, Published Poet
    • N.L. Blandford: On Writing

      N.L. Blandford: On Writing

      “People can shy away from topics because they are hard, and it can be easier to call them dark, rather than truth, or an aspect thereof. I believe that it is in the dark that we can really start to understand the true nature of our world and its people.” —N.L. Blandford

      Alexander Dunford

      June 12, 2021
      Book Review, Guest Writers, Literature, Writing, Writing Tips
      Author, Canadian Writer, How to write a novel, sex trafficking, Woman Author, Writing Tips
    • I am Published!

      I am Published!

      I am excited to finally be able to answer the dreaded question, “Are you actually published?” with a, “Yes!”

      Alexander Dunford

      June 8, 2021
      Poetry, Writing
      Poet, Poetry, Published Author, Published Poet, Success
    • Masters of The Craft: Stephen Crane, The Herald of Naturalism

      Masters of The Craft: Stephen Crane, The Herald of Naturalism

      All great writers master the craft, but Crane—like Whitman, like Dickinson, like Hemingway, like Hugo, like Pope, like Voltaire, like Homer, like Kafka, like Woolf—had a touch of the divine; that unteachable it factor, and it is among the company of these writers where he lives forever in the pantheon of literary immortality.

      Alexander Dunford

      May 24, 2021
      Academic, Literature, Writing, Writing Tips
      Masters of Literature, Naturalism, Stephen Crane, The Open Boat, Writing
    • Miniver Cheevy, by Edwin Arlington Robinson

      Miniver Cheevy, by Edwin Arlington Robinson

      Miniver Cheevy, born too late, Scratched his head and kept on thinking; Miniver coughed, and called it fate, And kept on drinking.

      Alexander Dunford

      May 14, 2021
      Poetry
      Edwin Arlington Robinson, Great Poetry, Miniver Cheevy, Poetry
    • Crosses & Scribbles: Writing As Christian

      Crosses & Scribbles: Writing As Christian

      “If I was to write a Christian novel, I would have to write, like all writers do, a human canvas navigating and experiencing life as it is lived; I would have to write the truth”

      Alexander Dunford

      May 4, 2021
      Bible, Christian, Writing, Writing Tips
      Christian, Christian Artist, Christian Author, Christian Fiction, Writing Christian Fiction
    • Book Review: The Portrait of a Lady, by Henry James

      Book Review: The Portrait of a Lady, by Henry James

      “Throughout these pages, the reader finds the brushwork of the master, and like all great artists, James can not only paint a story by the prowess of his craft, but, simultaneously, he hangs a mirror of enigmas and human complexity. Every reader can relate to the figurative handcuff’s persons’ finds themselves confined to.” —W. Alexander

      Alexander Dunford

      April 30, 2021
      Academic, Book Review
      American Fiction, American Literature, Book Review, Henry James, Portrait of a Lady, The Portrait of a Lady analysis, The Portrait of a Lady review
    • The Miraculous Rise of Phillis Wheatley

      The Miraculous Rise of Phillis Wheatley

      Wheatley achieved the miraculous, the impossible, the unthought of: she a black-African-born-woman did not peel at the edges of prejudice, she slashed it, and all were forced to recognize her gift and confront their misplaced assumptions on the place of women and slavery.  

      Alexander Dunford

      April 14, 2021
      Academic, Poetry, Writing
    • A New Novella

      A New Novella

      “So, dearest followers, buckle up and enjoy the ride; I will be showing you an inside look of the writing process; you get to join me on an ambitious but fulfilling project.”

      Alexander Dunford

      April 9, 2021
      Writing, Writing Tips
      follow a writer, how to write a short story, writing a book, writing a short story
    • My wife featured in SKATING Magazine

      My wife featured in SKATING Magazine

      Most of you don’t know that I married a celebrity (Olympian and professional ice-dancer) and that we, now, abode in picturesque New Hampshire. Recently, she interviewed for SKATING Magazine. I will brag on my wife every chance I get.

      Alexander Dunford

      April 5, 2021
      Family
      Christian Athlete, Did Emily Samuelson Get Married, Emily Samuelson, Figure Skating, Finance, Ice Dancing, Ice Skating, Olympics, Skating
    • Book Review: On Writing, by Stephen King

      Book Review: On Writing, by Stephen King

      “What I took from this book? Stephen King is not superman, and neither does the aspiring writer need to be. King makes it clear, writers are made in the trenches, and those who put their nose to the grindstone, and never let anything stop their writing, succeed.”

      Alexander Dunford

      March 31, 2021
      Book Review, Grammar, Literature, Writing, Writing Tips
      books about writing, craft reference, Stephen king, stephen king on writing, writing a novel, writing inspiration
    • The Choice to Write: A Reflection, Part 1

      The Choice to Write: A Reflection, Part 1

      I don’t do it for approval, I do it because it is the most natural thing in the world to me.

      Alexander Dunford

      March 29, 2021
      Family, Writing, Writing Tips
      Confidence, I want to be a writer, I want to write a novel, Live your best life, Writing
    • Book Review: The Midnight Library

      Book Review: The Midnight Library

      Few books can change you, teach you, and inspire you at the same time, but Haig’s The Midnight Library is one of those books.

      Alexander Dunford

      March 19, 2021
      Book Review, Literature
      depression, Literature, next read, suicide
    • Spring Break, shew!

      Spring Break, shew!

      There is something motivating in knowing that my children will learn to read on a book I made just for them.

      Alexander Dunford

      March 13, 2021
      Family
      dad life, spring break, update
    • I Write The Words I Cannot Pray: A Poem

      I Write The Words I Cannot Pray: A Poem

      I write the words I cannot pray, too false for Heaven, too honest for Hell, telling the truth by lying well.

      Alexander Dunford

      February 25, 2021
      Christian, Poetry, Writing
      poems about writing, Poetry, Pray, Writer
    • Book Review: The Light Between Oceans

      Book Review: The Light Between Oceans

      This story had me drinking to through it, as it twisted and ripped at my heart, for I could not put it down.

      Alexander Dunford

      February 17, 2021
      Book Review, Literature
      Book Review, Great new literature, Next book, The Light Between Oceans
    • Book Review: The Song of Achilles

      Book Review: The Song of Achilles

      I loved the story; I am a huge history nerd, and I love her ability to retell classic literature through the modern medium of prose.

      Alexander Dunford

      February 6, 2021
      Book Review, Literature
      Achilles, Historical Fiction, History, Troy
    • The Four Elements of Storytelling

      The Four Elements of Storytelling

      How well a writer weaves all four together, is the difference between a great and terrible book.

      Alexander Dunford

      December 15, 2020
      Writing, Writing Tips
      How to be a writer, How to write a novel, How to write fiction, Storytelling
    • Beat the Boy; Destroy the Man 

      W. Alexander Dunford  I will never forget the television’s blue light that night fifteen years ago. Leonardo DiCaprio’s Blood Diamond played. Outside, beneath black skies, rain pelted our windows and the house’s bones braced against high winds. Thunder shook the walls.  It was Father’s idea to watch the movie. He loved violence, and I loved […]

      Alexander Dunford

      December 13, 2022
      Writing
    • The Day God Died: Chapters 1 &2

      “…in that moment my fear retreated. I discovered I hated him and his kind. I hated his affluence, his expensive clothes, his chiseled looks, and the arrogance he was born to. But most of all, I hated the power he held over me, his assumption of authority, and the truth of his superiority.”

      Alexander Dunford

      December 13, 2022
      Writing
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