Ask the Author: Sue Campbell
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Sue Campbell
I love stories about kids who are over-the-top in some way or another. I look the character from my middle grade novel, The Cat, the Cash, the Leap, and the List, and thought about what she might be like at age fifteen.
Sue Campbell
Inspiration comes from everywhere, but especially the stories people tell me and the books I read.
Sue Campbell
My current book in progress is a young adult novel about a precocious fifteen-year-old who falls in love her a new music teacher at her school. It's sort of like the movie Rushmore, if Max Fisher was a girl at a Waldorf school.
Sue Campbell
Read, read, read and write, write, write. Also, commit yourself to learning about story structure. Other writers have figured out things that will help you write better faster, if you take the time to study.
Sue Campbell
Creating a whole world that exists in your mind and being able to make it exist in the minds of other people, too! It's like magic!
Sue Campbell
You have to show up and sit down. If you're actually sitting down to write, writer's block shouldn't be much of a problem. I'm okay with terrible first drafts, so that helps keep writer's block at bay.
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