Ask the Author: G.S. Tabberner
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G.S. Tabberner
I have far too many mysteries in life and I am happy for them to remain as such. Perhaps that could be a plot?
G.S. Tabberner
Revisit some of my favorite Stephen King. The Stand, Green Mile, From a Buick eight etc. Also, some books on developmental editing and such.
G.S. Tabberner
A man breaks down on a lonely rural road at night. He never recovers. :-)
G.S. Tabberner
I would travel North of the wall in Westeros.
G.S. Tabberner
I have yet to experience this.
G.S. Tabberner
I am a stone's throw away from sixty now, I have been a father and a husband, a brother and a son. I am now a grandad and great grandad. When my great grandchildren are in their twenties, I will be in my eighties, and that is if I am lucky. My hope is that I will leave something behind after I am gone, Something outside of my parental and family responsibilities. Another way to get to know me I suppose. I have always had a deep love of books and considered them a window, into not only the story within the pages, but the mind behind the story. It seemed the perfect place to hide a part of me that no one has seen before.
G.S. Tabberner
Believe in your story. When the going gets hard, step away from it physically but allow it to dwell in your head for a week or so and when you feel the pieces click into place get it down on paper. Always follow your character's lead, you never know where they will take you.
G.S. Tabberner
I have almost finished the first draft of book two in The Magical Diaries Trilogy.
G.S. Tabberner
I would say it is more about having time than inspiration. When I am driving my car, or washing the dishes or walking the dog my mind is never far away from Hiraeth and so when I do get time to write, I have a host of scenes and ideas at my disposal.
G.S. Tabberner
As a child I loved to read Alan Garner’s Owl service and C.S. Lewis’s Narnia books and wished, I had a ‘Narnia’ of my own to visit and have adventures. As an adult this has remained largely unchanged. I live in Snowdonia (Eryri) in North Wales and the landscape here, coupled with my need for escapism, led to my overactive imagination filling my head with images before I fell asleep at night. I woke up one morning with the outline of a fantastical, mystery story of a deformed and broken man finding solace in a 'Narnia' like world of his own. I continued to play out this imaginary movie before I would sleep at night over several years until, finally, I felt I had enough to make a story that might be interesting. Once I decided to get my imaginary movie on paper it all came together rather easily.
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