Steven Campbell (Author of Screw The Galaxy)

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Sir, I love your work and can鈥檛 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鈥辞谤别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 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.

!" She exclaimed
?" she questioned
," she wondered
." Then she left.

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鈥辞谤别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 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.

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	Screw The Galaxy (Hard Luck Hank, #1) 3.91 avg rating — 4,701 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Basketful of Crap (Hard Luck Hank, #2) 4.06 avg rating — 2,376 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Prince of Suck (Hard Luck Hank, #3) 4.08 avg rating — 1,909 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“I heard what sounded like twenty rockets exploding nearby, because twenty rockets exploded nearby.”
― Steven Campbell, Screw The Galaxy

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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鈥檚 what they鈥檙e for. Laugh all you want at a little .22, you get shot by one you鈥檙e 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.”
― Steven Campbell, Basketful of Crap

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“I've never really thought about a legacy. But for the last century it sounds like I was basically a bully with low blood sugar.”
― Steven Campbell, Screw The Galaxy

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“Sometimes pretty women are like thugs from different gangs: they dislike each other on principle.”
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“I've never really thought about a legacy. But for the last century it sounds like I was basically a bully with low blood sugar.”
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“I heard what sounded like twenty rockets exploding nearby, because twenty rockets exploded nearby.”
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