Writer, Reader, Thought Provoker
We Can’t Solve Problems With The Same Thinking That Created Them.
For my entire life I’ve been known as a problem solver, and have often been included on boards, hired as a consultant, or employed to turn around organizations. In that same vein, the thoughts and perspectives that you will see on this website, and often in my books, are unconventional and controversial. That is by intention, because we face many great challenges, some of them existential. We aren’t going to solve our challenges by doing things the same way we have been. Perhaps it is time to consider ideas we might find objectionable, but that could provide solutions.
I wanted to write great romances, with energy and adventure. I said from the start that if I could create characters that made readers fall in love, laugh, and cry, I would have done my job. Along the way, if we can do it without being weird or preachy, perhaps we can also think about the world we live in.
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Welcome to the V S Campbell ARC Team
Advance readers are the first people to read my books, before they reach the public. Your honest reviews on Amazon and Goodreads help new readers decide whether a book is for them. As an author building a readership, that help is worth more than I can say. Right now we are reading Sweet Land: The…
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How to Write – Organize Your Writing (Lesson Three)
Organizing your writing process is critically important. Creating outlines and timelines, and recording your inspirations so that you have the ability to recover them as you proceed through your story, all contribute to the quality of your result. In this video, I talk about using Microsoft Word, Excel, and Google’s comparable tools. I made these…
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How to Write – Being a Writer (Lesson Two)
Take time to connect with your own characters. Love them, laugh with them, hate them, because if you do not, how will your readers develop that kind of relationship with them? When I started writing, I decided that if I could create characters that my readers loved, laughed with, and cried with, then I had…
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How To Write – Tools and Mechanics
If you want to be an author who creates wonderful books that people love to read, it takes work. An obvious statement, right? Well, what I learned, is that most of the work isn’t the ‘writing’, it’s learning HOW to write. When I started, I had never written a novel; I had to learn the…