Nathan Bransford - The Forums

Practice is definitely the best way to improve the productive-receptive skills balance. I am a language teacher who spends hours a day encouraging students to use a common second language to interact.

Polymath's detailed reply is fabulous, not much I can add. As a reader I enjoy multiple POV books, whether they feature the goodie/baddie contrast of crime thrillers or the way different people interpret the same events. The latter point fascinates me anyhow, so like anything it comes down to person...

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It's great that you have enough ideas to write such a long manuscript.

That's a nice idea.

Site format is so crucial. I have about five Wordpress blogs that I've started and abandoned as I have never been able to understand how they work.

This may be the stupidest question ever, but I've just had a full manuscript request and the agent asked to specifically send it "so I can read it on my Kindle." So, my question: do I have to change to standard formatting at all to make it viewable on a Kindle or other e-reader? Is there some sort ...