On slow writing
“It takes me a long time, usually years, to finish something, even a short story. I worked on the story “Bringing Belle Home” from American Salvage off and on for over twenty years …. I have a lot of friends who have kids or who work long hours, people who struggle to find time to write, and I tell them: if you finish one good story or a couple of poems a year, you can be a part of the literary scene.”
— Bonnie Jo Campbell, interviewed by Heather Sappenfield in The Writer’s Chronicle, May/Summer 2012
This really resonated with me… I just finished a novel that I'd been working on off and on for about ten years! I've written (a lot of) other things in the meanwhile… but so happy I figured out a way to finish it! Great quote!
Thanks, Julia. It resonated with me too, for so many reasons. Congratulations on finishing your novel! See you on Twitter.
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