Trevor Stephanson
trevorstephanson.bsky.social
Trevor Stephanson
@trevorstephanson.bsky.social
Canadian author wannabe, is actually 3 imposter syndromes in a trenchcoat. I mostly write low fantasy with occasional steampunk and horror sprinkles
Reposted by Trevor Stephanson
💘 forbidden love
❄️ winter theme
🌃 urban fantasy
🃏 a gentleman trickster
🔮 magical bonds
🐕 doggy sidekick
🌺 99c

📚 book link: mybook.to/5pPC0t
July 17, 2024 at 8:10 PM
Reposted by Trevor Stephanson
✨🍂NEW SHORT STORY🍂✨

🏹 dark fantasy horror
🎋 a forest of spirits
🫂 two sisters
🪦 a deal made in a cemetery
🗡️ girls protecting girls
🗝️ children outsmarting adults
🌹 no romance
❣️ 99c

🔖 book link: mybook.to/JeltBy
📚 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...
July 13, 2024 at 9:39 PM
Everything I write lately is in a low fantasy steampunkish world that has a lot of problems with economic disparity between the nobility and the industrialists vs. the common people after a major war, magical ecological disaster, and the societal disruption of a technological/industrial revolution
General Question: We've done Pride, Wrath, and Sloth, so let's examine Greed next. Do you examine economic disparity, greed, and selfishness in your WIPs?

#LateNightWrite
June 30, 2024 at 10:07 AM
#WeeknightWriters

My whole world was built because I wanted steam engines and airships to be a practical, viable technology longer so I added enough magic to make that happen. This story was posted for free and is the only completed one so far: www.royalroad.com/fiction/7420...
June 27, 2024 at 11:54 PM
#WeeknightWriters

I used to do way too much worldbuilding as a way to procrastinate actually writing anything. These days I set all of my stories in the same setting/world because I already have most of it settled and I can focus on writing stories instead of reinventing magic and steam engines
Q2: How much worldbuilding do you do for your own stories? #WeeknightWriters
June 27, 2024 at 11:45 PM
#WeeknightWriters

Not doing it too much! It's easy for me to get trapped in a cycle of doing world building instead of actually writing anything in said world
Q4: What aspect of worldbuilding do you struggle with most? #WeeknightWriters
June 27, 2024 at 11:42 PM
I'm Trevor, currently working on a story set it my low-fantasy, steampunk-ish world following a pseudo-viking warrior woman hired to be the bodyguard of a rich noble couple's teenaged daughter when things go poorly during an airship flight
Hello #WeeknightWriters! Come on in, introduce yourself and your WIP, and let us know how your writing week is going! Or not going, that's valid too
June 27, 2024 at 11:38 PM
It's best to learn the rules of writing before you ignore them. Absolutely write with your own unique voice and style but it's good to at least understand why certain conventions/rules are taught before you reject them outright in favour of your own idiosyncratic approach
if u see this, quote-post with your tips for writers that no one gives anymore because they seem obvious (even though they're not)
June 27, 2024 at 8:39 PM
Loved this! A gripping, well-written story from start to finish
✨🃏🔔 SHORT STORY 🔔🃏✨

One night, Jace finds a runaway in his barn. A boy with a horrifying story.

:: no romance
:: gothic-horror
:: 26 pages
:: 99c

mybook.to/b4aB7L
June 26, 2024 at 11:12 PM
Writers, post something random from your backlist. Don't think. Just do it.

This was the first thing I wrote after taking ~a decade off from writing. Basically a steampunkish "Whiskey in the Jar" inspired short story. I don't hate it, which is high praise from me

www.royalroad.com/fiction/7420...
Writers, post something random from your backlist. Don't think. Just do it.

I don't write or sell many poems, but I really enjoyed this one.
www.abyssapexzine.com/2010/12/ston...
June 26, 2024 at 10:30 PM