Nathan Bransford - The Forums

But once again, disaster changes everything. A betrayal within her new family sends her into a panic and she defaults to her normal method of operating: isolation and avoidance. She runs away, leaving her friends and romance with Sawyer behind her, and now has the rest of forever to feel guilty for...

There are different things to like about each stage of the writing: the raw creative part in the beginning, the craft part of revisions, the excitement of nearing the end of a draft. It's good to break it up a little. I have been thinking about this. My first novel will go into initial revisions in...

My favorite part is when the story takes on a life of it's own, surprising me as I am writing. The hardest part is making myself sit down and write every single day. If I miss days in the midst of a story, I lose some of the flow and it takes longer to get back to.

Absolute Write has active forums including one for finding crit partners and beta readers. Nathan has it linked from his blog or you can just click here:
http://www.absolutewrite.com/forums/index.php

I have no experience with distance learning in creative writing, but the folks over at degreeinfo, who seem to know everything there is to know about what is available in distance learning, at least as far as programs with some kind of accreditation, have a thread on the subject here: http://degreei...

Monkeys, absolutely.

I like the spiffy new site. I don;t mind the justification on blog posts myself, but I can see how it might be less readable to others. Gratz!