Alex Gravelle

Alex Gravelle is currently enrolled in the Professional Writing Program at Algonquin College. Here he plans to build on his creative side of writing while gaining experience on the business side as well.  As a quiet, young poet Alex looks for the deeper meaning in everything that comes his way, and is a rather pleasant fellow. Currently Alex is working on a non-fiction piece, and writing music for his latest band SUB|MISSION.

 

Silently Studying
from the Sideline

A look at what revs my raw power to what melts my heart in a single beat.

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Wednesday
May302012

The Grady Tripp Lifestyle

Chabon creates this lifestyle for Grady Tripp that is quite reckless. Tripp's life is loaded with drinking, drugs, sexual affairs, and a couple of dead animals even come into play. Quite a wild ride really. This all sounds like a great party and I'm sure it is for those who live this way. Chabon is really not that far off from a certain writing lifestyle that he portrays. It is not exactly your typical writing lifestyle, at least not in the era we are in today, but yes, there have been and will be more outlaw type writers. The Grady Tripp writing lifestyle definitely seems to be a dying breed, but I am positive that there are great writers out there with these issues that just haven't been noticed yet.

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