We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful John Campbell. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with John below.
Alright, John thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. Learning the craft is often a unique journey from every creative – we’d love to hear about your journey and if knowing what you know now, you would have done anything differently to speed up the learning process.
Finding my writer’s voice caused me to rewrite the first six books in my series. That story with examples is on my website…https://www.
Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.
I spent the first half of my life having a love affair with poetry. I even went off to the mountain to write for a couple years: moving to Austin, living in an efficiency, doing odd jobs to make ends meet, spending half my day reading the classics, the other half writing, then slamming poetry in the evening at Chicago House off Sixth Street.
When my computer broke, out of necessity, I figured out how to fix it. It was such a fun puzzle I ended up working on friends’ computers to supplement my odd jobs and nonexistent poetry income.
My son came along, and I went from repairing computers on the side to full-time sales with Dell. As the company grew from 5k to 138k employees, I spent 22 years riding the crest of a wave of constant change. I retired early with enough money to indulge my first love.
A pocketful of good stories from Dell became, “Riding on the Coattails of Genius.” My second book was “A Week of Years.” In it, I compiled the poems that shaped the first half of my life, then intertwined them with narrative to create a coherent storyline.
After that, I began a more ambitious project; a twelve-novel supernatural series called “The Celestial Wars.” I am not religious, but I used religion as the backbone for a really powerful cast of characters that I continue to enjoy fleshing out as I get back to book seven…after a year spent rewriting books 1-6.
I am also a partner in my son’s water damage business and moved to Colorado Springs to support him.
Alright – so here’s a fun one. What do you think about NFTs?
I did a lot of work with my partner and narrator, Dan Johnson. Here is the link for his conversation around NFTs and Web 3…https://www.thecreativenow.
Here is our Creatokia Metaverse site…https://www.creatokia.
Any resources you can share with us that might be helpful to other creatives?
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.thecreativenow.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/johncampbellwriter/
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@thecreativenow
- Other: I am on Facebook regularly, but most of my efforts (and followers beyond my mailing list) are on YouTube. Right now, I am creating a series of AI-generated video shorts I am using for my paid GTM efforts.