My Writing and Opinon and fiction and publishing and writing Sue Campbell on 18 Jul 2009
A quick poll in the absence of time and a better idea … vote by commenting.
1. Do you think it is harder or easier to win a writing contest or to get an acceptance by submitting a piece to an appropriate lit pub? (I’m broadly generalizing about any contest.)
2. Have you ever entered a contest, [...]
Opinon and Quotes of note and Reviews and books and news and publishing and reading Sue Campbell on 15 Jul 2009
Recently on PW’s online an article about the wildly popular subject of zombies in pop culture, and fiction in particular, was um, chewed on by writer Stefan Dziemianowicz. It prompted me to think about why it is we tend to want more and more of the same thing, over and over and over….
… the zombie [...]
Quotes of note and author and books and reading Sue Campbell on 13 Jul 2009
My favorite quote of the day:
People aren’t reading books so much. They text and Twitter and Google a lot—anxiety reading—but they’re too jumpy for books.
—George Dawes Green
Mr. Greens novel, Ravens is due out this week. I know nothing about it. But I like the cover.
My Writing and fiction and writing Sue Campbell on 09 Jul 2009
I was closing up my office on a Friday night after a week that had been deader than the roaches in that six-month-old Roach Motel under my desk. I was looking forward to a brewsky at my local pub, like Santa looks forward to New Year’s Eve, when she walked into my office like a centipede with 98 missing legs…. Read this story that uses all the worst high school creative writing metaphors and then some!
