I've got about fifteen chapters for this historical work and now thanks to all your good thoughts and kind words I know I can go back at it. IF Alexander could rebuild the mole at Tyre after the Tyrians had destroyed it the first time I know I can do this, it's a hell of a lot easier than it would have been to rebuild that damn mole! 
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Being a writer is difficult enough, and to find that after years of working on a novel one has gone in a poor direction is discouraging. However, there is always hope. After some thinking about my newly published ebook, The Books of Alexander, based on some thoughtful and well placed comments by various individuals I have gone back and am rewriting the project from the original historical concept with a new title. This was what I wanted from the beginning. If it is difficult to get a pulse on what will sell and be accepted by the publishing field and the reading public at large. Sometimes one gets off in the wrong direction, Alexander did this himself on occassion, but he knew never to give up nor do I. I know that writing the best work I can on Alexander is my goal.
What I find as a writer difficult is to get honest, fair criticism that will help one realize where one might have strayed. I respect other individuals who are able to do this in a kindly, honest manner.
I think there is room enough in this world for many books on Alexander. There are many of us out there who love and revere the man and want to show him to the world through the eyes which we see him, as a man of honor, dignity and great deeds. That is the intention of my work. I realize that in approaching a subject matter in which the scholarly world has long held the pulse one must be diligent and careful in one's approach of one's subject. However, in all honesty unless any of us living today personally knew Alexander "then" we are all writing about him based on our own private view of worship and hopeful perspective. Yes, we buoy this up with research and other methods, but even for the most devoted of scholars in the end we are writing about an individual whom we know through history and as such can only ever interpret our views of him through our own distorted lenses.
I never intended, as some might have suggested to insult Alexander and his legend in any manner with my book, THE BOOKS OF ALEXANDER, like all writers I was trying to get my view of the man I have come to know across in a manner in which I thought might help other people, especially those only familiar with him from the perspective of Stone's movie, which was Mr. Stone's view of Alexander, which I applaud him for making and sharing with the rest of us. We should all be so fortunate. Sometimes in trying to do something we end up going a bit too far, I admit I did that. I'm sure we've all done that in our lives in one manner or another. Part of any creative process is experimentation, and that only comes through trial and error. You cannot achieve growth any other way.
Rather than cutting one another down as writers, let us hope to work in a spirit of good heartedness and give our best to our subject who surely if anyone ever has been is deserving of it.
Thank you, Lysis
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