My Writing and author and fiction and writing Sue Campbell on 13 Jun 2010
Like writing? Like Flash Fiction? (Flash is anything under 1,000 words.) Like vampires? It’s all coming together at the VampireKissed website. Author Devin O’Branagan is holding a flash fiction contest. You must use the words “vampire kissed” in your story’s title, and use the vampire theme in the story. Writing a complete story in 1,000 [...]
My Writing and fiction and writing Sue Campbell on 20 Mar 2010
The kind that make you smack yourself in the head.
I’ve been struggling with the middle of my YA novel for a very long time. That and plotting. My plotting was more like plodding. My story is set in the middle of the past century. The lead up to the cold war plays an integral part [...]
inspiring and websites of note and writing Sue Campbell on 12 Jan 2010
This is an idea generating, stimulating online tool that anyone can use to find that elusive “right” word. Visuwords presents words, their meanings, synonyms, homonyms, etc, in an intuitive and colorful interface. It’s much deeper than it looks at first glance.
“Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce [...]
My Writing and Nanowrimo and fiction and writing Sue Campbell on 12 Nov 2009
I have really fallen behind on my word count. I missed writing for five days! I have no a chance in Hades to catching up to the others in my writing circle, they are all closing in on 20,000 or surpassing it! That’s right where they should be on day 12 of the month long [...]
My Writing and Nanowrimo and poetry and publishing and writing Sue Campbell on 02 Nov 2009
Hey! It’s November and NaNoWriMo has started. I went to my first “write-in.” It was fun and productive. My word count after the first session? (drum roll here) 3,158! Yay me. The daily goal is 1,667, but since I won’t have time to write every day… I’m trying to do more when I can write.
Also, [...]
Nanowrimo and bookcovers and writing Sue Campbell on 28 Oct 2009
All right, I am going to do Nanowrimo next month too! I started to feel guilty about offering prizes to the rest of you Nanowrimo-ers(?) when I wasn’t even giving it a try. So I signed up, and I will be attempting to add words to a novel I’ve fallen off track with. I know [...]
Nanowrimo and bookcover and bookcovers and covers and writing Sue Campbell on 26 Oct 2009
Nanowrimo cover contest! Enter here to win a free cover design.
Nanowrimo and inspiring and writing Sue Campbell on 23 Oct 2009
So November is just around the corner. It’s Nanowrimo time! National Novel Writing Month, when against the odds, people write 50,000 words in one month to create a novel length work. From scratch. Fifty thousand words in 30 days equals 1600 words a day. In addition to whatever writing your day job might require, plus [...]
blogging and news and publishing and writing Sue Campbell on 02 Oct 2009
I and my publisher Carolyn Uber have been invited to speak next year at the East of Eden Writers Conference in Salinas California. That’s Steinbeck country, and the conference is named for his famous novel. The conference is sponsored by the South Bay chapter of the 100 year old California Writers Club.
I’ll be speaking on [...]
