Ask the Author: Trevor Johnson
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Trevor Johnson
Writer's block can really only apply to plotting, unless you write without knowing the plot in advance. Plotting stalemate is frustrating when you want to just get ahead but it always resolved itself after a few days.
Trevor Johnson
Coffee shops. But I have been told that answer is too short so how about 'coffee shops and the drinking of coffee therein'?!
Trevor Johnson
Tell a good story. If there's no compelling hook in the first few pages you're not doing it right.
Trevor Johnson
Writing a thriller called Deershelter Plain, which will be published probably in early 2016. Also possibly a sequel to The Gathering Place called Splinter Beach, a ghost story set in Cornwall.
Trevor Johnson
Walking along with some headphones and loud music usually does it.
Trevor Johnson
Walking down Devonshire Road in Chiswick one day gave me the idea of a young woman going for a job interview in the WW2 era. I wrote her story, but later cut it all as it made the prologue too lengthy. She's still the heart of the book though.
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