Ask the Author: Stephen B. Anthony
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Stephen B. Anthony
Dewey: Behind the Gold Glove. The biography of Dwight Evans, my favorite baseball player of all time.
Stephen B. Anthony
Write 1,000 words every day. It doesn't matter if they are good or not. Just write. Some will wind up being good and some will wind up being bad. Learn from the bad. Celebrate the good.
Stephen B. Anthony
I get inspired to write by reading. You can't really be a good writer if you don't read. Often I find myself pondering the work between sessions asking, "What if the author had taken the story X instead of Y at this point?" So really, it's about watching, reading, listening to stories and wondering what would happen if something had gone differently. This typically leads me to imagine new outcomes, which drives the desire to write a story.
Stephen B. Anthony
Transversant. The sequel to Transmigrant and Book 2 of the Terra Nova series.
Stephen B. Anthony
Telling stories that are interesting to me. I don't write stories that I think will fit a target demographic. I write what I like. I write what is fun for me. I write what I would like to read.
Stephen B. Anthony
I get up and walk away. I go get an ice cream cone or sit in a cafe observing people. If you do that long enough, you'll find something interesting to write about. It might not be what you were working on before, but that's okay. Just write. And while you are writing this other thing, you'll have an epiphany about the old thing. Write it down.
Stephen B. Anthony
Middle-earth, and nothing else is close for me. I should like to hang out in Michel Delving and have second breakfast followed by a pipe full of Longbottom leaf.
Stephen B. Anthony
I worked at the National Security Agency in my twenties. A bunch of it remains classified, but there are certainly some ideas that have percolated over the years. One in particular is the idea of American handlers of foreign agent assets. I wonder how this might play out in my setting, where the idea of foreign is an interworld rather than just an international consideration.
Stephen B. Anthony
I am a huge Isaac Asimov fan. His Robot and Foundation series influenced me greatly when I was a young man.
Foundation was based on the fall of the Roman Empire, but I wondered about the rise. Before there were ten thousand worlds, there must have been just a small handful. What would that have been like?
While my stories aren't set in Asimov's universe; they certainly try to answer the question of what some great galactic civilization might have been in the few hundred years of its extrasolar existence.
Foundation was based on the fall of the Roman Empire, but I wondered about the rise. Before there were ten thousand worlds, there must have been just a small handful. What would that have been like?
While my stories aren't set in Asimov's universe; they certainly try to answer the question of what some great galactic civilization might have been in the few hundred years of its extrasolar existence.
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