Nathan Bransford - The Forums

While I've never tried a split first/third narrative before, I do know about rewriting for POV reasons. For my current WIP, I was over 80,000 words into my first draft when I realized that the story needed to be told in first person rather than third. And by that time I had so many improved story id...

This is my first attempt at a query letter, so any constructive feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thank you! Dear Agent, Twenty-four-year-old Blake O'Connor's life seems to be going nowhere fast, even for a deep-space polonium miner. The woman he loves is millions of miles away on Earth, and l...

You can't win. Aunt Martha has no imagination and demands that you supply every tiny detail, while your friend Bobby objects that you're overloading him with tons of pointless description that just slows your story down. In the end, it's your manuscript, and you have to make the choices. If the cri...

that's exactly how I've been writing lately, except I use headphones because my wife is typically asleep next to me. I got on such a roll last night I didn't stop until 4am

I know EXACTLY what it feels like to lose that mythical spark. When I first thought up the idea for my novel I was completely stoked, and I couldn't wait to put it down on paper. But after several weeks of writing, and 80k words later, I just couldn't make myself finish it. Something was wrong. Way ...