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A new blog from the Buffalo born author of the novel, 'Traveling With An Eggplant', that deals with her work, book tour, and ridiculous midadventures, as well as descriptions of Clarence bars, restaurants, businesses, parks, etc so that people know more about her hometown and get a humorous look at what's featured in Clarence and what being there is really like so that they want to make an effort to check it out. People actually living in Buffalo have zero excuse for not going anyways but hopefully the blog will give them that extra push. For more info, there's always the official site: www.alyciaripley.com where you can read all about the lively, eccentric brunette and what she's currently up to. In addition to promoting "Eggplant," her new book 'Try Anything Once' should hit stores in late summer '07 followed by a novel called 'Winterphoenix' shortly thereafter. She is also an obsessive copyeditor, the co-editor of an anthology book of works by Buffalo born writers along with notorious Buffalo man about town essayist, Tom Waters as well as being a commentator for this just-born site. She has performed in many NYC stage productions and has an upcoming extended stay in Los Angeles to further her film work. Her nomadic life has helped her to appreciate what Buffalo and in particular, Clarence, NY has to offer, so get there already and see what all the fuss is about.

Weird survey that inspired 8 more pages of writing
Contributed by: Alycia Ripley   on 6/1/2008

Again, one of these weird surveys that inspires my creativity when I'm least trying. Everytime I fill out one of these I write about 12 pages in my new book...it just sparkplugs something in me! I do these when I'm working really hard and writing a page and if I want to take a break I reward myself by doing one of these to relax for a minute once I've gotten down a lot of what I wanted to say (I'm going to write about the new book coming up especially since I always drop mention of it) but they end up inspiring me to write more! I'm not sure what it is but these surveys always keep pushing a mind in an even more divergent direction...and make it ready for anything.

Use the first letter of your last name to answer each of the following. They have to be real places, names, things...nothing made up! Try to use different answers if the person in front of you had the same first initial. (WHICH BY THE WAY IS HARD IF YOU ALREADY READ THEIR ANSWERS) You CAN'T use your name for the boy/girl.

Ripley

1. Color......Red
2. 4 letter word.........Rain
3. Vehicle: .......... Renault
4. City / Neighborhood: ........Redondo Beach
5. Boy Name: ...........................Richard
6. Girl Name: .............................Roxy!

7. Occupation: ..................... renovator
8. Something you wear:............rouge
9. Food: ..................................relish
10. Found in a bathroom:.......... rug
11. Reason for Being Late.............reminiscing
12. Something you shout:.........Really, you're REALLY going to do that?!
13. Animal:...............................Raven
14. Body part:............................rib cage
15. Word to describe you: ..........Rambunctious




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Alycia Ripley

Clarence , NY

Alycia Ripley has posted 105 blog entries and 3 comments since joining on 12/6/2006. Alycia Ripley 's average blog rating is 4.46.
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