Ask the Author: Stephanie Ellis
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Stephanie Ellis
Ever the child at heart - Narnia! When it's winter. I'd visit Mr Tumnus.
Stephanie Ellis
Do it - I came to it late and honestly never thought about it before because it was a time of 'you can't make a living doing that' but these days the platforms are out there - as is the support.
Read, write, submit, repeat - and don't let anybody say you can't do it.
Read, write, submit, repeat - and don't let anybody say you can't do it.
Stephanie Ellis
Poetry projects at the moment. Two projects with two different people. I hope to reveal those in the not too distant future.
Stephanie Ellis
It's as much a physical need to write (as it is with reading) that gets me going. An atmosphere is very much the trigger to my writing, as soon as I sense something 'other' in a place, a sort of haunted feeling, I start to imagine a person in that setting and then the writing just flows.
I feel I don't have to search for inspiration too much - things just swirl around in my head all the time. And reading always triggers ideas.
I feel I don't have to search for inspiration too much - things just swirl around in my head all the time. And reading always triggers ideas.
Stephanie Ellis
Creating characters and seeing them take on a life of their own, even if they do end up doing horrible things! And then finding readers who enjoy those characters as well.
Stephanie Ellis
I've never really had writer's block, though I might feel temporarily stuck. In those instances, I picture myself as the character and just get them doing something, even something really boring like putting the rubbish out - as you move with them, things happen and it just gets going again! I suppose you could say it's just writing yourself into the tale again. Any bits that remain boring can be stripped out.
Stephanie Ellis
My most recent book (As the Wheel Turns - More Tales from the Weald) is actually a collection based in the same world as the preceding novel, The Five Turns of the Weald.
Having created this world, I wanted to look at the other characters who lived in the villages and I also wanted to explore the traditions they might have whilst incorporating a few of our existing UK traditions, for example, the Haxey Hood. When you build a world it does take on a life of its own!
Having created this world, I wanted to look at the other characters who lived in the villages and I also wanted to explore the traditions they might have whilst incorporating a few of our existing UK traditions, for example, the Haxey Hood. When you build a world it does take on a life of its own!
Stephanie Ellis
A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay, various Stephen King books as yet unread or due a reread. The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer, an author I only recently read for the first time with his book, The Naked and the Dead (although I can't think of The Executioner's Song without the Adverts song, Looking through Gary Gilmour's Eyes, running through my head). Hopefully(!) a variety of books - as yet unidentified - which deal with official executioners, their mentality, possible execution methods of the future - all in the name of research.
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