Nathan Bransford - The Forums

"Before it eats up too much of my daily consciousness"

I can soooooooo relate. If I don't write, I fall into my story and can't get out because I'm afraid it will all vanish from my memory. I write so that I can go back to it. I rewrite so that I can take others there with me.

I'm not a teenager anymore, but I wrote my first novel at 15. Ironically, it was my algebra teacher that encouraged me to write as a profession, even though I got "A"s in his class. He had chalkboards on three walls of his classroom and only used the one in front, so at alternating lunch t...