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Goodreads asked. How do you get inspired to write?

The thought of the future inspires me, which is why I probably read so much science fiction, which has translated into me wanting to write about the future.

I am not saying that I think things will be better, I am sure there will still be wars and petty conflicts between nations and eventually planets.

What I believe is that the human species will have more opportunity to evolve as we spread out away from out home planet, as we create A.Is, humanoid Robots, science that will allow for the betterment of the species.

At the moment we seem content to retrace old ground. Greed, money, power, my hope is that the future will produce wonderful, and new opportunities for change.

This is what inspires me!! 

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The clock is still ticking, but I am patient. Let what ne...

The clock is still ticking, but I am patient. Let what needs to be done unfold at its own pace!

Architect http://www.amazon.co.uk/Architect-Book-1-Steven-Stennett-ebook/dp/B004JHYMJK

Coming very soon, the book that it should have been to begin with!

Another question asked by the folks at Goodreads. What’s the best thing about being a writer?

Being able to allow the images in my mind, to be transferred into the written word, so that I can share the stories that I am for ever making up in my head.

The stories that I write always begin life as movies that play within my minds eye! 

This was how Architect was born. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Architect-Book-1-Steven-Stennett-ebook/dp/B004JHYMJK 

More questions asked from the team at Goodreads. What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

WRITE, just write!

Sure plan it, have a beginning a middle and a end, but ultimately write it, the fine tuning can be done, once you have completed it.

There is nothing worse than an unfinished book, or one that never gets started!

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Question asked by the team at Goodreads. Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Three things kept going through my head, an Android, a cyborg solider and a love story!

These three ingredients I somehow needed make into a story!
I was compelled, nay driven to do so!

Architect became that story!


http://www.amazon.co.uk/Architect-Steven-Stennett-ebook/dp/B004JHYMJK 

A couple a questions the people at Goodreads have asked me

How do you deal with writer’s block?

 Never had it, the closest I have come to that situation, is right now where I have intentionally stopped writing, in lieu of Architect http://www.amazon.co.uk/Architect-Steven-Stennett-ebook/dp/B004JHYMJK being copy edited and re-released, which will be happening very soon.

I cannot move forward with anything, until mentally some form of closure has been obtained from Architect becoming the book I envisioned!

Alien: Out of the Shadows by Tim LebbonMy rating: 3 of 5 ...

Alien: Out of the Shadows by Tim Lebbon
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This book took me a while to get through. Not because it wasn't a good book, more because it just wasn't what I was expecting.

Ash the science officer from Alien, has a fundamental role in this book, and the characters addition, is superbly handled, giving the tying that had to be made to latter books, a level of integrated, that has to be applauded.

The book just wasn't what I wanted it to be, more a short coming in me, than that of the book.

I will always have love for the Alien, at the top of its game, the land base equivalent of the great white shark, whats not to love!

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Patience

I have come to embrace the concept that patients is undeniably a virtue, I have allowed myself to stop stressing about the progress of Architect, http://www.amazon.co.uk/Architect-Steven-Stennett-ebook/dp/B004JHYMJK , and decided that all good things, do come to those that Waite!

I would just like to take this opportunity to ask any readers opinion about a new book cover for Architect. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Architect-Steven-Stennett-ebook/dp/B004JHYMJK

A talented book design has given me an option, to potentially have a new book cover used for the re-release of Architect, http://bennitheblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/architectcover-web.jpg

Tell me what you think, also here is a link to the designers site, check it out, http://bennitheblog.com/

she does great work!!!

I have to say waiting around for my book to be copy-edited is one of the most frustrating things I have every had to endure. For the first time I cannot motivate my self to put pen to digital paper and write. Something I love to do! Its about closer, I

Architect by Steven Stennett
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Taken from a review on Amazon Kindle uk

A highly individual first science fiction novel 31 Mar 2012
By Samd
Format:Kindle Edition

In 'Architect' Steve Stennett takes the reader into a technologically advanced dystopian universe where man and technology are no longer clearly delineated. A trans-galactic chase is underway and the reader is lead on a disorientating journey.

Most impressive is the author's description of the technology of this bleak future universe. Sometimes, no detail is too much, creating a heady sense of being overwhelmed by jargon. As a layman, I found myself, at times, confused by the accounts of interactions of software, programmes and hardware, adorning humans, androids, planets and spacecraft.

Yet, though alienating, I found the information overload to be a strangely effective way of writing about a futuristic universe. I got the sense it wasn't just me that was disorientated, so was the humanity of the story, having been hi-jacked by technological advances and society desolated as a result.

The idea of two beings assaulting each other with computer viruses, for example, is an example of the writer forcing us to consider where technology is taking the race.

The brilliant and imaginative technical writing, does, however, have two drawbacks. One, is that the plot turns can be difficult to follow for the layman, if not translated into simple language. Second is the drawback of creating an imbalance between character and technical description. Unfortunately, this imbalance, for me, left the emotional aspect of the story somewhat light

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I have to say waiting around for my book to be copy-edited is one of the most frustrating things I have every had to endure. For the first time I cannot motivate my self to put pen to digital paper and write. Something I love to do! Its about closer, I

Architect by Steven Stennett
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Taken from a review on Amazon Kindle uk

A highly individual first science fiction novel 31 Mar 2012
By Samd
Format:Kindle Edition

In 'Architect' Steve Stennett takes the reader into a technologically advanced dystopian universe where man and technology are no longer clearly delineated. A trans-galactic chase is underway and the reader is lead on a disorientating journey.

Most impressive is the author's description of the technology of this bleak future universe. Sometimes, no detail is too much, creating a heady sense of being overwhelmed by jargon. As a layman, I found myself, at times, confused by the accounts of interactions of software, programmes and hardware, adorning humans, androids, planets and spacecraft.

Yet, though alienating, I found the information overload to be a strangely effective way of writing about a futuristic universe. I got the sense it wasn't just me that was disorientated, so was the humanity of the story, having been hi-jacked by technological advances and society desolated as a result.

The idea of two beings assaulting each other with computer viruses, for example, is an example of the writer forcing us to consider where technology is taking the race.

The brilliant and imaginative technical writing, does, however, have two drawbacks. One, is that the plot turns can be difficult to follow for the layman, if not translated into simple language. Second is the drawback of creating an imbalance between character and technical description. Unfortunately, this imbalance, for me, left the emotional aspect of the story somewhat light

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