Ask the Author: Trevor Stubbs
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Trevor Stubbs
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Mystery, in the sense of uncovering something hidden, conjures for me ideas of the metaphysical. The biggest mystery in my life is how I have come to know 'grace', in the sense of a free gift from God. I am aware that that can sound trite or formulaic and that 'grace' is a standard bible word not used much outside of Christian circles. Yet something changed in my life when I was a teenager. I was transformed from being a primary school child with little promise to a sixteen-year-old going places and the inspiring people in a Christian youth club had a lot to do with it. That's what mystery means for me.
As to a plot of a book... it'd be too ordinary a story and I'm not contemplating an autobiography.
Mystery, in the sense of uncovering something hidden, conjures for me ideas of the metaphysical. The biggest mystery in my life is how I have come to know 'grace', in the sense of a free gift from God. I am aware that that can sound trite or formulaic and that 'grace' is a standard bible word not used much outside of Christian circles. Yet something changed in my life when I was a teenager. I was transformed from being a primary school child with little promise to a sixteen-year-old going places and the inspiring people in a Christian youth club had a lot to do with it. That's what mystery means for me.
As to a plot of a book... it'd be too ordinary a story and I'm not contemplating an autobiography.
Trevor Stubbs
My planet Raika in the Andromeda Galaxy. I would gaze their night sky and identify my home galaxy and admire it.
Trevor Stubbs
I can honestly say, I've never had it!
Trevor Stubbs
It's fun. You can make friends with your characters. You meet other authors of all sorts - some of them just 'wow!'. You can travel and share.
Trevor Stubbs
1. Decide on the kind of story you want to write. 2. Think of the kind of person who might read it and write for them. 3. Read a simple how-to book about writing. 4. Begin small - just a few hundred words. 5. Read loads. 6. Don't afraid of sharing your work with others you can trust and listen to them.
I have produced a paper of ten tips for budding authors - I guess I should put it on my website.
I have produced a paper of ten tips for budding authors - I guess I should put it on my website.
Trevor Stubbs
I have just started a trilogy set in one of the worlds that our heroes get to in the Flip! trilogy. I won't say where that is and spoil the surprise. Suffice it to say that is very much still at the ideas/blue-skying stage and may take another couple of years, given that I get involved in stuff other than writing on the way. That's if I finish it.
I also have an unpublished finished manuscript that I might revise.
I also have an unpublished finished manuscript that I might revise.
Trevor Stubbs
It's definitely a calling with me. I do believe in a higher authority who has His/Her universe on His/Her heart. So I pray. What do you want to do, say, write, Lord? What I write has to be useful and mean something - and that sometimes means I don't get loads of readers immediately.
Trevor Stubbs
It's hard to say where the ideas come from. It's a combination of things. I am interested in people and characters and then think about how they would react in our world today. All of the stories are really about our world even if they put in off-world fantasy settings.
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