Writer Wednesday takeover - Angela Wren interviews me
It's
all about fantasy today. So wishes can come true and authors can be
anything they want to be! And I am Angela Wren and I am temporarily
taking charge of Stephanie's blog so that I can interview her about her
writing and her wonderful book 'Djinn and Tonic'.
AW What is your current release?

AW What first got you into writing and why?
SC I
can’t remember a time when I didn’t write.
My first love was poetry, but as a child I also used to make up long,
rambling tales starring me and my friends, and loosely inspired by the
adventures of the Famous Five. I loved
(and still love) writing because of how the imagination can take us to all
kinds of places that we’d never go in reality, and open up the most amazing
adventures. It’s like having the
opportunity to live dozens of different lives, instead of being limited to
one.
AW You write Romance novels.
Is it all imagination or do you also undertake research?


AW Have you ever had to write a scene that was especially difficult and how did you do it?
SC I
can’t think of a specific one, perhaps because every scene has its own
challenges. In general, I think I
struggle more with overall structure than with individual scenes. I was going to say, the hardest thing is
often knowing where to start a story, but then I remembered that I also often
find it hard to wrap the plot up neatly.
Oh, and saggy middles are always a struggle. So no, I wouldn’t say there was one
particular scene.
AW Famous authors, such as Roald Dahl and Dylan Thomas, had a
special space for writing. Do you have a writing ‘shed’?
SC No. I mostly write on a mini laptop so my writing
is very portable. I sometimes write at
home, either at the dining table or on the sofa, but in the summer I also enjoy
taking my writing outdoors, and I quite enjoy writing in coffee shops, although
I can be distracted by people-watching. Just now I’m writing on a train, but my dream
writing spot would be curled up on a sofa in a conservatory overlooking the
sea.
AW Finally, if you had a whole afternoon to yourself and could
choose to spend it with anyone, living or dead or a character from a book. Who would it be, and what would you want to
discuss?
SC That’s
a tricky one! There are a lot of people
I’d like to meet, but at the moment, with all the publicity surrounding the
anniversary of Shakespeare’s death and the discovery of another first folio,
I’d go for the Bard of Stratford-upon-Avon.
I’d like to settle once and for all the question of whether he wrote all
the plays attributed to him, or whether Bacon or someone else was involved…
although I don’t suppose Shakespeare would want to give up the credit for his
famous plays, and you can never quite trust a fiction writer to give you true
answers, so maybe we’d still never know.
Thanks, Angela, for visiting today and for some fascinating questions. Thanks also for having me to visit on your blog, James and Me.
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