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Stacey Campbell's insights into writing a novel (or many) and trying to get published.

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Stacey Campbell: Hi there, I'm Stacey Campbell--Policy advisor by day, writer by night. Chocolate lover 24/7. Reader of all things YA, fantasy and a touch of suspense. This blog will be an outlet for what I've learnt about novel writing, and all the trials and tribulations of trying to get published.

The Em Dash and all of it's glorious uses

The basics, what on earth is an Em Dash? It is a dash the size of the letter M (would you believe that's how it got its name?). Micros...
Filtering: great for your coffee, bad for your manuscript.

Filter words are those pesky things that can drive a wedge between the reader and the POV character, creating distance and lessening the imp...
Don't splice and dice--your commas that is!

What on earth do you mean? I'm talking about the comma splice. What is it? This is when a comma is used to splice two independent cl...
SIX Tips for Writing Dialogue

When dialogue is done well: (1) You don’t need creative dialogue tags of the adjective variety i.e. “she said, surprised” or “he said, ...
New Blog over at: http://stacecampbell.wordpress.com/

Hi All, Thanks for dropping by, please come to my new blog here: Write All About It - Blog from Stace Campbell
How I LOST my writing mojo... and what it felt like when it came back

A few posts back I talked about being in a bit of a writing slump, triggered around the middle of my novel, well, thank god, after some awes...
When things get cluttered...

Sometimes when I write everything lives in cluttered piles around me: the dishes, the laundry, the papers upon papers on my desk/dining tabl...

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