Each of my books took roughly one and a half years to write. Some may have taken a shorter time to write the draft and a longer time to revise, while others were the opposite.
Alex FlinnI have a great deal of empathy for anyone who's having a hard time. I believe this ability to see another's viewpoint has served me well as a writer.
Alex FlinnAlthough my other ambition was to be a musical theater star (and I would attend college on a voice scholarship), writing was never far from my mind.
Alex FlinnEvery girl pretends she is a princess at one point, no matter how little her life is like that.
Alex FlinnIn stories like Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast, they always say the heroine is 'as good as she is beautiful.' I wondered if people just wanted that to be true, wanted the beautiful to be good. I wondered if they wanted the ugly to be bad because then they wouldn't have to feel bad for them.
Alex Flinn