Nathan Bransford - The Forums

Welcome, thrintone.

If you have any questiosn, just ask. And the first thing you have to do for a query is relax. :) It's just a story, though a short one. Hook, character, conflict, rising action, conclusion. Easy Peasy. If you can write a good novel, you can write good query.

Best,
Bryan/Ink

Dickens, Lewis Carroll, Conan Doyle, and Pynchon all used illustrations well. WG Sebald and Javier Marias use photos well. Very few people use them well. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/archive/a/a9/20060119154504!Trystero-small.png Well, Sebald doesn't have any frigging paragraphs, so I t...

Text text text text text. And then some more text. Unless I'm reading a graphic novel. Which would sort of defeat the point.

An end to straight text would be pushing a stake into my poor little vampiric heart.

amyashley wrote:This feels oddly like I imagine an AA meeting might, but in type.

My name is Amy and I'm a writer too.

Congratulations. Admitting you have a problem is the first step to recovery.


:)

Seriously, if you need anything, just ask. Welcome to the forums.

Best,
Bryan/Ink

My wife and I actually have a title game: we pick fragments out of people's conversations (and our own) that would make great titles. I'm a complete sucker for a great title. A great title just grabs you: Of Love and Other Demons. Thank you, Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

I'm reading:

Strange Piece of Paradise, by Terri Jentz.
Lost City Radio, by Daniel Alarcon.
The Paris Review Interviews IV

oooh, and Michael Herr's Dispatches , and Tim O'Brien's If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home , and 102 Minutes , and Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking , and Elizabeth McCracken's An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination , and Ann Patchett's Truth and Beauty (which every w...

Though I'd put Into Thin Air up there, too. And Vassily Grossman's A Writer at War. And A Woman in Berlin, by Anonymous.

I'm rereading (to my wife) perhaps the best book I've ever read, and it's a memoir -- http://www.amazon.com/Strange-Piece-Paradise-Terri-Jentz/dp/0312426690/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1282101615&sr=1-1 Strange Piece of Paradise, by Terri Jentz. Ignore the Publishers Weekly review, as...

Well, Nathan, you certainly know how to make more work for yourself!

Seems fine to me. If you need anything, just ask.

Bryan

Man, I love that guy. Brilliant article. And he's one of the great writers, in my opinion.

Vikings!

Where's my horned helmet?

Hi Marlan,

Feel free to lurk away, but it's a good crowd here - very friendly and polite. Occasionally silly. But it's all between friends.

If you need anything, just give me a holler.

Best,
Bryan

Nathan, isn't there a part of you that's just dying to get your hands on your final copy of Jacob Wonderbar? I mean literally in your hands, not an electronic, downloaded version that your agent or editor e-mails you. Have you thought about what it's going to feel like the first time you see some t...

Well, it's not necessarily "should". There's no direct correlation between "close" and "good" or "distant" and "bad". There's no objective value placement on the choices of narrative distance. There is subjective value; certain people like certain di...