Author: Alex Irvine
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2014 Writing Recap
An Atlantic Monthly-style rundown of my keyboard activities during the year almost past… Words of prose fiction written: approximately 400,000SpecOps scripts written for Avengers Alliance: 8Season 2 chapter scripts written for Avengers Alliance: 5New episodes of Marvel Puzzle Quest written: 5New Raid Event scripts written for Marvel War of Heroes: 13Other things written for Marvel…
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Holiday Shopping Note: Signed Books
If you happen to be planning to buy a book I wrote for a holiday gift, please buy it from a local store. If you would like a signed copy of a book I wrote, buy it from Longfellow Books in Portland and I’ll go over there and sign it. (This offer good year-round, but…
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My Letter Advocating Police Cameras
Dear [Elected Representative], This letter is a call for congressional action to mandate that every police officer in this nation be outfitted with body cameras. Further, I call for the disabling or loss of those cameras to be made an actionable offense. Outfitting officers with cameras will provide a powerful disincentive for rogue behavior and…
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Ursula K. Le Guin’s Speech at the NBA Ceremony
I know I already talked about this, but if you are a writer or a reader or someone who has any interest in American arts and culture, you really should watch this speech. https://youtube.googleapis.com/v/Et9Nf-rsALk&source=uds
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The Luxury of a Messy First Draft
One of the things I have occasion to think about, a lot and in great depth (or at least the kind of focus that one hopes will result in great depth), is the difference between working on original and licensed fiction. I do a great deal of the latter, and enjoy it; I do not…
Crooked House Fictions 