Nathan Bransford - The Forums

Very inspiring, thank you for sharing!

When writing creatively this question has been my most powerful weapon. As a writer you have to possess this boundless curiosity for what could happen next. It probably started in my early teens reading Fighting Fantasy novels, do you remember them? Where you had to choose what to do in the story be...

There's a rather Faustian element to this question. What price your soul? That's how it feels for me anyway. Not writing (no matter how modest my lifetime writing achievement might be) would be like selling my soul. I would choose writing... what is money anyway, and how can you buy what cannot be b...

For me it tends to be plot first, the big picture, but as I slot the characters into this scenario they tend to make their own decisions, screw the plot and come up with their own way to save the world. Characters, if well drawn, modify the plot, I see it through their eyes and make revisions accord...