Ask the Author: Angela Stevens
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Angela Stevens
The Wolf You Feed sort of just happened. I'd finished my Romance and was at a loss as to where to go next. I wasn't sure if I wanted to write another romance story straight away. On a whim I decide to experiment with some fantasy ideas. I wrote a chapter without really knowing where it was heading. In fact I thought it was going to go in a completely opposite direction. After stumbling around experimenting with voice, a few characters started to emerge that I really liked and just knew I wanted to develop into a full story.
I had a dream a few days later that was really vivid and the next day I spent scribbling. I just let all my thoughts pour out of my pen and they began to take shape. Copious amounts of notes later, I found something emerging and got excited by the prospect of these hybrid human species living within the human world.
It took off from there. The first draft was a complete mess and had so many story themes it was about ten books in one. For months I excavated it until I found the real story I had to tell.
I had a dream a few days later that was really vivid and the next day I spent scribbling. I just let all my thoughts pour out of my pen and they began to take shape. Copious amounts of notes later, I found something emerging and got excited by the prospect of these hybrid human species living within the human world.
It took off from there. The first draft was a complete mess and had so many story themes it was about ten books in one. For months I excavated it until I found the real story I had to tell.
Angela Stevens
Quite simply I get to do what I really love. Over the last few years that I have been writing full time I can honestly say I love to get up to do my job. In fact I am endanger of loving my job far too much and have to be forced to leave it alone at times.
Writing makes me feel so alive, and at the moment it is really fulfilling. It's kind of a selfishness really, but it feeds my soul and makes me happy.
Writing makes me feel so alive, and at the moment it is really fulfilling. It's kind of a selfishness really, but it feeds my soul and makes me happy.
Angela Stevens
There is no one thing that inspires me. My first book, Lemon Drops And Love grew out of my love for romance stories and I wanted to try my hand at one. It was meant to be entirely different but I had a dream about this particular guy and it grew from there. In this story the characters very much dictated to me where things were going.
But otherwise inspiration comes from anywhere and at any time. Chance conversations, a clip from a movie and vivid dreams have all inspired me.
When it hits it is like a lightening bolt and for weeks it dominates everything I do. After several weeks of thinking constantly about it, dreaming different scenarios and just writing down anything that pops into my head eventually I see a glimpse of something emerging and then I run with it.
But otherwise inspiration comes from anywhere and at any time. Chance conversations, a clip from a movie and vivid dreams have all inspired me.
When it hits it is like a lightening bolt and for weeks it dominates everything I do. After several weeks of thinking constantly about it, dreaming different scenarios and just writing down anything that pops into my head eventually I see a glimpse of something emerging and then I run with it.
Angela Stevens
I am currently working on a YA Urban Fantasy trilogy. It melds the worlds of Lycans and Skin walkers. It is a saga of a tale that spans thirty years and two generations.
It follows the highs and lows of Tore Vargr who inadvertently makes an enemy of his brother. The consequences are far reaching and affect not only his life but the life of his children.
Book 1 of the Vargr Trilogy is called 'The Wolf You Feed' and will be available in late fall. I am currently working on rewrites for the middle book, 'Hold On'. The third book, 'An Unbreakable Will' is also written and awaiting its final drafting. I'm very excited about this trilogy. It has been a labor of love for eighteen months.
It follows the highs and lows of Tore Vargr who inadvertently makes an enemy of his brother. The consequences are far reaching and affect not only his life but the life of his children.
Book 1 of the Vargr Trilogy is called 'The Wolf You Feed' and will be available in late fall. I am currently working on rewrites for the middle book, 'Hold On'. The third book, 'An Unbreakable Will' is also written and awaiting its final drafting. I'm very excited about this trilogy. It has been a labor of love for eighteen months.
Angela Stevens
I'm a fairly new writer, and I came to it late in life. I have no degrees or studies under my belt to have helped me in my craft. What I do have is a tremendous group of people who have offered their own expertise, time and effort to mentor me.
I count myself very lucky that so many have taken this time, but in order for me to have improved and learned from them I had to be prepared to accept criticism and to listen to what they said.
Its a hard, hard thing to do, but love your beta readers and editors. listen to them, don't be over precious about your baby. Take criticism as it was intended to be given. These people are offering advice to make your work better.
So aspiring writers, join a group or an organization like wattpad, then share your work and truly listen to what people have to say. Take their comments with good grace and then remember to say thank you.
I count myself very lucky that so many have taken this time, but in order for me to have improved and learned from them I had to be prepared to accept criticism and to listen to what they said.
Its a hard, hard thing to do, but love your beta readers and editors. listen to them, don't be over precious about your baby. Take criticism as it was intended to be given. These people are offering advice to make your work better.
So aspiring writers, join a group or an organization like wattpad, then share your work and truly listen to what people have to say. Take their comments with good grace and then remember to say thank you.
Angela Stevens
I always have numerous projects on the go, each at different stages, requiring different types of writing. If I'm struggling in one area I find switching tack and working on one of my other projects helps prevent the writers block set in.
At the moment I've been struggling through a huge rewrite of the middle part of my trilogy. It's not exactly writers block but some chapters have been such an enormous challenge, I have been overwhelmed by them. In this case I have found it useful to skip ahead and edit chapters further on in the book. Each day I return to the 'bad' chapter and take another look. Sometimes I have to rinse and repeat this for several days before a spark will fire me up and I can zoom off again. But even if it's taken me a week to get back to it I feel good about myself because I edited and rewrote several other chapters while I got over my stumbling block.
At the moment I've been struggling through a huge rewrite of the middle part of my trilogy. It's not exactly writers block but some chapters have been such an enormous challenge, I have been overwhelmed by them. In this case I have found it useful to skip ahead and edit chapters further on in the book. Each day I return to the 'bad' chapter and take another look. Sometimes I have to rinse and repeat this for several days before a spark will fire me up and I can zoom off again. But even if it's taken me a week to get back to it I feel good about myself because I edited and rewrote several other chapters while I got over my stumbling block.
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