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Christiane Alsop

Website: ChristianeAlsop.com

Christiane Alsop lives and dreams in two languages. After spending her early years in academic research in Germany where she was born and raised, she now parlays her experience to inform her literary works. From European to American life, from research to fiction, she explores the differences and similarities that divide and unite us all. She has published numerous academic articles, as well as “Presumed Guilty,” a personal essay in the Briar Cliff Review, named Notable Essay of 2005 in The Best American Essays 2006. Her first novel THE IDEOLOGY OF LOVE is currently under agent consideration. Christiane lives in Beverly, Massachusetts, with her husband and son.

Christiane's Posts:

The Silence of the Quandts, or Why I Write
Friday Faves
Helping Others to Tell Their Tale
Page Turner
Friday Faves
Horizons, Helping Lines and Vanishing Points. Lessons from Drawing for Writers.
The Incident with the Dog in the Early Evening – Journaling or a New Masterpiece?
Passion is King – The Inspirational Story of a Screenplay
Post Partum Writer Depression. A Case Study, Prevention, and Treatment
Every Book has a History – Acknowledgements
Invitation to Play, Part II: Sudoku for Writers
Invitation to Play, Part I: Transmutation via Translation
The Silence of the Quandts, or Why I Write
A Whale, A Gun, And A Doll House: A Writer’s Reading Diet And Why It Is Crucial To Stray
The Translation Continuum – Speaking Across the Divide
Secrets: Fuel for Writing & Action. Astrid Lindgren, Revisited
Dreaming in Two Languages – Writing In The Second
A Quirky Query
Seriously, Queries.
Author-Agent Speed Dating Service
Back to the Roots. Why I Love My Etymological Dictionary.
Loss, Regret and Transformation: An Interview with Aine Greaney
Writer, Know Thyself: Keep a Personal Journal
Developmental Stages of a Short Story 101
The Swarm of Contradictions – Teaching Literature at a State College
Concert of Words – a Website for Poetry Spoken
A Sea Change at the Bookshop – The Independent Bookstore
Illustrated Fiction
A Whale, A Gun And A Doll House: A Writer’s Reading Diet And Why It Is Crucial To Stray
Literature’s Gender Divide: Numbers About Old-Fashioned, Boring, Outrageous Sexism
A Stranger in a Strange Place: Where Do You Do Your Writing?
How to Re-write The Ending – Conversations with my Alter Egos
The Incident with the Dog in the Early Evening – Is it Journaling or the First Draft of a New Masterpiece?
Home and Away – What Happens When you Send Your Protagonist to Foreign Lands
Objects, Objects – The Stories They Tell About Your Characters (A Survey)
My Notebooks, My Allies: Tools for Exploring and Exploiting the Pre-Shitty-First-Draft State of Mind
Here’s to Ingeborg Bachmann
Dreaming in Two Languages – Writing in the Second.