creativity | Cyn Alexander

Five Things To Avoid When Writing Your First Book

On Monday, I wrote about five of the things I learned writing my first book that I wish I'd known earlier. I'm following that article up...

Five Things I Learned Writing My First Book That I Wish I'd Known Earlier

I started writing my first book sometime in 2019. Here it is, 2022, and I'm still in final edits, preparing to query this summer. When I...

Writing While Traumatized: Horror, History, and the Healing Powers of Genre-Blending

CW: sexual trauma I love gothic literature and old horror movies. My favorite books are still Wuthering Heights and Dracula. Two of my...

Writing Horror Against My Will: How Astrology Helped Me Make Peace with My Own Jekyll and Hyde

This is part two in a series of articles on the intersection of astrology, writing, and learning about myself as a creative. Spend a...

How I Used Astrology to Write (and Complete) My Book

This post is the first in a three-part series that brings together three topics that are important to me: astrology, writing, and...

Mars in Pisces: Pacifying the God of War

Today, April 14th, the god of war enter the sign of the fishes. Mars enters Pisces. For me, this takes place in my fourth house, the...

The Storyteller's Phantasy: Finding, Fostering, and Fueling the Creative Impulse

Some of my earliest positive memories from childhood center around my making up stories and expressing those stories through art and...