The author, his writing, photography and more
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The above article in French (click to see full size page) under the title: In the heart of a former institute for young girls in Saint-Blaise, Alan McCluskey writes novels in English, was published today in the local weekly called the Bulcom announcing the coming exhibition of my work on September 23rd (2-6pm) at Mureta 2, CH-2072 Saint-Blaise.… Read more
Where does the horizon of your story lie? When it is far off that can be reassuring, but the closer it comes the more the doubts form…
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How far away is the story horizon? Very often as you’re telling a story you can see where it’s going.… Read more
As some promising threads remain unexplored in writing a novel, the question is what to do with the loose ends. Cut them out? Or weave a new thread through the novel?
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I wish you good health and happiness, but, above all, I wish you courage to make the changes necessary for the challenges present and to come.
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Looking back over the past year, my vision is necessarily coloured by who I am and what I’ve done.… Read more
It was years of cast-off story fragments and untold wild fantasies that finally formed the foundation on which to build my novels…
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Throughout my life I’ve told myself stories, many of them messy fragments with neither a beginning nor an end.… Read more
Based on my own novels, some elements of a possible framework for writing aimed at sparking future narratives in readers.
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In my article Stories for the Future, I wrote: By hinting at possible narratives, fiction can be a powerful tool for change.… Read more
Carefully crafted stories can help stave off anxiety due to uncertainty about the future by inspiring individual narratives of ways forward.
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Anxious? It’s hard not to be. Just turn on the radio or the television or browse the Internet, the news is an unending tale of woe.… Read more
The diversity of the stories I tell is too complex to be shunted into convenient, saleable categories, but there are identifiable underlying forces that characterise what I write…
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Each of my novels is born of the fountain of story fragments that are constantly bubbling up inside me.… Read more
Approaching writing on the basis of accumulated experience rather than a set of rules such as grammar is natural for some people but can cause problems when confronted with an education system based on rules.
I have just completed the draft of Bursting with Life! taking the overall word total of my sixteen written novels (see the complete list) to more than two million. Who would have thought I’d write so much when I began my first novel, The Reaches, fourteen years ago in 2007.… Read more