My Older Books

Hello, readers. I am offering links to places that still have ebooks that I wrote and published as Steven L Campbell before 2017. I plan to discontinue them after 2024 and revise them in paperback form at Amazon, but I don’t know when they’ll be available again. If you like what I write, please get … Continue reading My Older Books

Taking a Break

As we head into November, I’m taking a two-month pause from blogging to work on some writing projects that I’ve not been able to focus on properly, and to consider the direction in which I want to steer my blog. Almost all of October, I’ve been helping a fellow writer prepare for NaNoWriMo (National Novel … Continue reading Taking a Break

Change of Plans

We’re at the end of September and I see I’m falling short of republishing my Ridgewood Chronicles series of books. As spring became summer, my schedule for writing diminished. No matter how I tried to force it, the mood wasn't there. By autumn, I knew I’d fallen far behind with finishing the second book of … Continue reading Change of Plans

Doing Again What We Love

Today, I’m celebrating the one-year birthday of this blog. That doesn’t mean I’m new to blogging. I’ve been doing it since 1993, posting my writing and artwork for thirty years at webhosts such as popular-at-the-time GeoCities and MySpace, to name two. I moved to WordPress in January 2011 and posted, “Hi. I’m a wildlife and … Continue reading Doing Again What We Love

Feeling the Rain

I have been an artist most of my adult life. It has brought me awards and recognition beyond my desires. And it has brought me to crossroads when I’ve no longer felt challenged by it. Which is why I turned to other passions during those times. One of those other passions is writing, divided into … Continue reading Feeling the Rain

All Our Struggles Are Interesting

I was nine years old and a fourth-grade student when I wrote a short story in writing composition class about two astronauts going to a faraway planet. I don’t recall the story’s details very well, but I do recall it had a beginning, a middle, and an ending. In the beginning, my astronauts blast off … Continue reading All Our Struggles Are Interesting

Macroscopic Death, Poem 2023-0703

Tomorrow is our annual celebration of Independence Day in the USA. Independence means many things to all of us, and for many of us it means freedom. When I was in the Navy, my commanders and drill instructors taught me how to fight for freedom by defending the country I was born in. They taught … Continue reading Macroscopic Death, Poem 2023-0703