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Sir, I love your work and can’t wait for the next installment, but in the meantime I wanted to ask what your writing and editing processes are like. Do you have a fixed schedule? Do you come up with the story ad-lib or do you make a guideline? And the editing. You mentioned listening to it in order to work out the kinks. What is that like? I would really appreciate it if you could shed some light on your process.

Steven Campbell I'm no sir, I work for a living.

I go a-z reading. I'm concentrating on word usage, readability, plot. I have a thesaurus open and a graphical word sen…moreI'm no sir, I work for a living.

I go a-z reading. I'm concentrating on word usage, readability, plot. I have a thesaurus open and a graphical word sentence outliner that works maybe 50% of the time.

I have my own quirks. How stuff appears on the page, matters. Having he said, she said back and forth also gets tiring. And that's another thing, I have to make it sound real because it will go to audio book. Like I just changed a sentence where four guards did something and it could be heard as FOR guards. So I changed it to five and no one will ever know.

It takes about an hour or so to do one chapter and there are around 75 chapters. I just get burnt out on it. If you read it all the way through it will like be a 10-11 hour book. But I'm reading the same sentences over and over.

My next edit will go to a professional who does a proofread with some light copyediting.

I'll then edit that and print it out with a full hard copy and check into a hotel somewhere and just unplug. Those are when i really cut out whole pages.

Grammar isn't science. A few of my quirks in style is that you will never see dialogue start after description. "Steven said." <--like that wouldn't exist. All dialogue starts on new lines because it makes it pop out. There can be detail after it and more dialogue within.

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Sometimes I do an arbitrary upper/lower based on the sentence preceding it. But it makes sense to me.

All of this stuff is in the computer of course.

Pre-Writing, I invariably put myself in a hotel somewhere to daydream. I'll get ideas and flesh them out. Major milestones. Then do a lot of walking to it coherent. Still, vast amounts of stuff changed. When I'm in the scene, I write what would really happen, now what I had outlined 3 months ago. I'm not even looking at that stuff.(less)

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Who is your favorite fictional couple, and why?

Steven Campbell Nick Charles and Nora Charles in The Thin Man (1934) movie. I consider it my favorite, ideal man/woman, husband/wife relationship. They tease each oth…moreNick Charles and Nora Charles in The Thin Man (1934) movie. I consider it my favorite, ideal man/woman, husband/wife relationship. They tease each other, work with each other, joke with each other, and trust one another. There is a great scene when Nora opens the door on her husband Nick holding a young woman in his arms. He's comforting her. But this was a 1934 movie and it was a potentially racy scene. She comes in, sees them, and he makes a face at her. She makes a face back. There isn't even a moment of doubt that he's fooling around or something. Here is the link to it below.

https://youtu.be/h1h2XxnoC68?t=277 (less)

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“I took my autocannon off my back and swung it around to my front, holding it like I meant business. Every gun means business, that’s what they’re for. Laugh all you want at a little .22, you get shot by one you’re not laughing. But an autocannon that hurls a grenade four or eight or whatever miles, takes business to a whole other level. It was an advanced degree in business.”
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