Nathan Bransford - The Forums

Two Things: Updates on my WIP and thoughts about the necessity of multiple creative pursuits: http://ygmason.com/two-things/

An update, almost a year later, on my work in progress...

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I'm in - aiming for 1000 words a day. May 1 - Managed three handwritten pages, which I calculated to be approximately 1000 words. Won't know for sure until I type it up, which I plan to do at the end of the chapter. Easier than I thought; perhaps the last few days of essay writing have helped to eas...

motivational wallpaper, plus keeping a diary:

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The difficult thing is that without a real deadline - self-imposed ones can easily be ignored - it can be difficult to make time for writing when something else comes up that can't be sidelined or even that just seems more appealing at that moment. I'm trying to force myself to set deadlines I can r...

Uninspiring statistics, plus writing by hand and being inspired by pretty stationery:

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on salvaging good ideas from the wreckage of previous drafts.

I like thinking of titles too. Sometimes having a key word or phrase linked to the project can help you to make associations and think of new ideas based on imagery that the title evokes.

I think I should play my main character in the films. And you should play the Love Interest.

Does anyone know if/when JACOB WONDERBAR will be available in UK bookshops? There is one copy on amazon.co.uk, but I haven't seen any 'in the flesh', as it were.

Thanks - really wondered what was going on there.

On attempting to finally reach the 'first 10k' milestone.

Just wondering - is there some reason why copying and pasting into the 'compose' box from a word processor causes Blogger to add totally unnecessary HTML throughout the text? Just finished a new post and when I pasted it in it came out in various sizes and there were <span> tags everywhere - even in...

I think that any amount of money would be great just from the point of receiving accolades for your writing, but from a practical point of view it can seem like an unprofitable strategy to spend so much time on something for little (or often no) financial reward, especially from the viewpoint of a n...

New blog, first post on procrastination (Link in signature).