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Idea Generation

Writer’s High

April 19, 2017 By Marcy Campbell

So, it appears I’ve forgotten to post for awhile. In fact, I teased you with a February post just before I attended my first Society for Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) Conference in New York, and then I never followed up to tell you how it went, and that was very naughty of me, […]

Filed Under: Writing and Editing, Writing Conferences Tagged With: Idea Generation, Middle Grade, Outlining, scbwi

Filling the Well

April 4, 2016 By Marcy Campbell

“Filling the Well” is a phrase I first encountered many years ago in Julia Cameron’s book “The Artist’s Way.” It’s a concept for writers that’s quite simple to grasp, harder to accomplish. It simply refers to having new experiences, getting out into the world, seeing, hearing, smelling, touching, tasting new things so that you can […]

Filed Under: Writing and Editing Tagged With: Idea Genera, Idea Generation

Turn, Turn, Turn

January 12, 2016 By Marcy Campbell

There’s gorgeous, fluffy snow covering everything this morning. The kids hurried through breakfast so they’d have time to play in it before walking to school. My husband (who actually enjoys shoveling, go figure) happily donned his trapper’s hat and set to work on the driveway. I’m smiling as I write, and thinking, “Well, it’s about […]

Filed Under: Random Musings Tagged With: Idea Generation

Quick! Get my tinfoil hat!

July 8, 2013 By Marcy Campbell

There are moments when paranoia grips my throat so tightly I can’t breathe…when my mind is paralyzed with the thought that someone else out there…someone else laboring alone in her own, similarly sized and ill-equipped writing closet is writing about the very same thing I am! But I had the idea first! Didn’t I? Not fair!Here’s my […]

Filed Under: General Ennui and/or Existential Dread Tagged With: Idea Generation

The Little Man Inside My Head

April 23, 2013 By Marcy Campbell

  So, I’ve been having this problem with…um…with… (Hey! Is that a Chipping Sparrow at the birdfeeder?)…FOCUS. After a long (sometimes painful, sometimes exhilerating) struggle to complete my first novel, I’m ready to begin the next one. I have a bare-bones idea for the book, and I’ve been doing lots of background reading, but I […]

Filed Under: Writing and Editing Tagged With: Idea Generation, point of view

Writing by Walking Around

January 31, 2013 By Marcy Campbell

You’ve heard of Management By Walking Around, the MBWA? Today, I practiced the not as well known WBWA, Writing By Walking Around. No words were actually put on paper, but I considered it a good work day nonetheless. I spent a glorious two hours in the fiction stacks of my local library. I had no […]

Filed Under: Writing and Editing Tagged With: Idea Generation

Trusting Your Gut

April 12, 2011 By Marcy Campbell

So, I’m still writing in my closet and convinced that this is definitely the place for me. This summer, when I have more time, I plan to turn this space into something fabulous. Even now, with badly scuffed walls, diaper boxes on the floor, and my husband’s shirts hanging over my shoulder, this space is […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized, Writing and Editing Tagged With: Idea Generation, writing space

Inspiration

October 23, 2009 By Marcy Campbell

I’m supposed to be writing novel #2, but I’m looking out my office window counting the yellow leaves as they fall from my ash tree. I used to have trouble remembering what kind of tree it was, but then I thought up a little hint. If I ask my husband again what kind of tree […]

Filed Under: Writing and Editing Tagged With: Idea Generation, novel writing

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