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-- Creative non-fiction writer | multi-instrumentalist -- Helping you sharpen your essays, stories (and even songs!) by asking the right questions and zeroing in on your voice.
- English
- Creative writing
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About Alexander
My name's Alexander, or Griffin. I'm a writer and a multi-instrumentalist in a bookish, narrative-driven rock band called Adjy. I'm a bit of a prose poet, reader of existential philosophy, political science hobbyist, and cooker of bangin' dinner for my fiancée. But mainly, I walk around a lot. Between 2015 and 2021, my friend Chris and I would pace around the neighborhood trying to storyboard the impossibly dense narrative threads of a masochistically difficult project: We decided as a band that we were going to make a concept record that was also a single epic poem that would take place somehow across three different time streams, and purposefully blur the characters together to create a feeling of floating between past, present, and future. And what's worse: the whole album would be sung in dialogue. (I don't know why we did this to ourselves.) You can understand why it took 7 years to make. Every scene had to also be connected in a deep way to some other scene, so that the whole work could be read in reverse, or from a different starting position, and still be coherent and compelling -- no matter how you held the thing up to the light. What began as a music project blossomed into a sort of self-initiated study on screenwriting, leitmotifs, Jungian psychology, mythology, religion and a lot more. We released it finally in 2021 -- The Idyll Opus, which you can listen to on any streaming service you use. It marked the end of my fear of writing. It's *massive* (about an hour and a half long) and still has a sequel in the works. What I learned from Chris and the band was all about breaking things down into achievable goals that excite you, the writer, enough to complete them. With a good 'why', you can mount any 'how'. And what's more, I found out that these same principles are basically universal-- to become a solid writer is to become a solid *thinker*, a good decision maker, a reflective and aware *person*. I learned so much in those seven years, pacing back and forth. It's made me who I am today. I want to share it in whatever small way I can.
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- Primary
- High School
- NCEA Level 1
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levels :
Primary
High School
NCEA Level 1
NCEA Level 2
NCEA Level 3
Adult education
Masters
Doctorate
- English
All languages in which the lesson is available :
English
My strategy for getting you to be a stronger and more fluid writer -- one who can set your sights on a target and chase it with full confidence -- is about the interplay between AIM and FLOW.
These are two basic ideas that exist together in a kind of balance, orbiting each other like a binary star system. If can get your head around that relationship, you'll have everything you need to become a sharp, engaging writer.
My approach in this way is totally holistic. It's less about the technicalities (though they are still super important!) and more about a thought process, a series of habits, that take the overwhelming task of writing and breaking it into small and interrelated chunks.
If you're in school and there's an assignment that feels impossible and scary,
or you're an aspiring writer who needs some solid and sane feedback so you can feel confident in how to grow your voice,
You've got this. I can help.
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Studying with Alexander will teach you how to communicate clearly with any audience in a way that is both compelling and engaging
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- 10h: $194
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