Ask the Author: D.J. Stoneham
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D.J. Stoneham
Sye ran his fingers through his wife’s hair and thought of all the times he had stroked her red tresses to soothe her troubled soul. Now, as he drew the knife slowly across her throat, and her skin parted to become a gaping black maw, he knew that he loved her more than ever." What's that all about? Read the Worlds Apart saga.
D.J. Stoneham
Stephen Donaldson's world where Thomas Covenant had his adventures. What would do there? Run like the clappers!
D.J. Stoneham
Do something else. Sometimes it takes an hour or two to get into the zone, so a bit of patience is needed. Re-reading what happens before can help (as long as you don't get stuck on editing old stuff). But if it feels like work then it's rarely good material, so I take the dogs out.
D.J. Stoneham
You get to do precisely what you would do "if only you had the time".
D.J. Stoneham
I don't know as I am one myself. I love the advice I read recently about the only way anyone can learn to write is just by writing. I'm sceptical about advice that you have to write for a specific audience in mind. Sounds a bit artificial and mercenary. I write about the stuff I like and hope there are a few others out there that like it.
D.J. Stoneham
I'm preparing to revisit (and recreate) a trilogy I've been writing for 30 years. It's high time the first book was completed and sent out into the world.
D.J. Stoneham
I suppose the answer has to be that deep within there are a whole bunch of ideas and parts of stories that gradually wend their way to the surface and beg to be written. Some, like erupting volcanoes, need urgent attention, hence strange night-time scribbles that I try to decipher in the morning. I find some pieces of music help me get totally immersed and into the zone.
D.J. Stoneham
Although there’s little I relish more than getting lost in the depths of a good science fantasy book (Stephen Donaldson’s Thomas Covenant series being my all-time favourite), the creations of Lewis Carroll and CS Lewis have always retained a special place in my heart. So when I reached the stage where my “grown-up job” gave me the chance to spend more time on my own writing, I decided that Alice Falls Again would be my first novel to reach the finishing line.
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