Ask the Author: Steve Gay
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Steve Gay
Just write - write anything. The ideas will come.
Steve Gay
It is the one theatre of life where you are in control, and the characters will dance to your tune (usually, although it sometimes feels the other way around).
Steve Gay
Only ever write for pleasure - anything else is a bonus. Always remember that a story isn't just a sequence of events - there should be an underlying meaning or message to what you are writing
Steve Gay
My current project is the start of a science fiction series, a character-driven saga with an unusual female protagonist.
Steve Gay
I don't find that I need much in the way of inspiration - my mind is always restless, and strange notions arrive easily enough. It is not what to put on a blank page that is difficult, but how to shape the story so that it builds and twists and punches as it needs to.
Steve Gay
I saw a photograph of my father when he was a boy, sitting on a concrete elephant just as the war was beginning, and began to talk to him about that time, the way the neighbourhood responded to the outbreak of war, the social tensions, the pressures and expectations that weighed on a young mind. He described the Luftwaffe bombers flying over our town in the moonlight on their way to bomb Coventry, and how the burning city glowed on the horizon - and from that image the story was born.
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