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Alex Van Tol

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Sheep-shearing, Shambhala and the Summer of Love🤘

Alex Van Tol August 2, 2026 The Infinite If: The chess of writing & publishing TLDR: Let go and let life. Because your fullest life is trying to find you...if you'll let it. Where you're headed is nothing like where you've come from. ✨ 🦋 They said 2026 was going to be fast and full. I sort of didn't believe it, because I live like a turtle: slow and quiet and tucked deep inside my comfortable shell. It'll be fast and full for other people, but not for me, I thought. My life is quiet and...

20 days ago • 8 min read

Alex Van Tol June 14, 2026 The Infinite If: The chess of writing & publishing Year of the Fire Horse. It's asking me to simplify. The kids are grown and both will be in a different city next year. So I'm simplifying. I gave away almost all my furniture and a lot of my clothing, moved house, deleted over 100 books. Said goodbye to 25 years' worth of journals, poof: to the landfill. Old stories that have done their work. I'm trying out a friend's Kindle because I want to travel more, mostly by...

2 months ago • 3 min read

Alex Van Tol May 3, 2026 The Infinite If: The chess of writing & publishing I'm seven weeks into my fiction blueprint. Had one meeting with my book coach so far. I've already overhauled the whole story. Is this feeling familiar to you? OMG the chess is real. I've rewritten my entire blueprint, all the way down to the why—at least in my mind. During tomorrow's Saturday writing session (I'm writing this on May 1), I'm going to put my new thinking down on paper. Map out a whole new...

4 months ago • 3 min read