Nathan Bransford - The Forums

and i'm third-ing the percy jackson series. my seven year old has read the series twice this summer, and he's head over heels about it.
when i was that age i loved the babysitter's club series.

When I think boy-book, I think Percy Jackson. My younger brother never really loved reading (even though his school curriculum was heavily reading-based) until a teacher friend of ours recommended the Olympians series. You are so right about those Percy Jackson books! The boys love them! My oldest ...

cheekychook wrote:Compulsive back seat checker here.

very wise. very wise.

yay! i'm glad others have been scared of sharks in the potty! my family thought i was nuts! the people under the bed thing never has scared me. But unlocking my car in the middle of the night in the empty parking lot terrifies me! i always think that someone is hiding under the car and will slash my...

Okay, random fact about me: Even since I saw the movie Jaws, I can't go into the ocean. I'm scared a shark will get me. Following suit with the Jaws theme, I've never seen the movie. But when I was a kid I saw the video cover at the movie rental place. Just seeing the cover was enough that I was to...

perhaps this is a thread where everyone is saying the same thing, but in a different way. no one thinks that we should always default to cliche. no one thinks we should overstretch for unique writing. i think we all agree the middle ground is most desirable. but i wonder about two points of discrepe...

very entertaining.

Quoth the Bran-man: "Too often, aspiring writers try to reinvent the hovercraft when it comes to crafting totally unique phrases, and the writing doesn't come across as effortlessly as it needs to in order to keep the reader engaged with the story. There are turns of phrase in this page that st...

passive voice, info dumping, dialogue tags, adverb-mania, pet-words, elipsis overusage... hmmmm. what else?

oh! and out of curiosity, how many of you guys already have sketches (or commisioned art like knight tour) for your wip's?
i know i've fiddled with a few sketches.

i'm divided on this as well. i love good illustration, but i also get annoyed when the artist doesn't have a similar interpretation to mine. however, i find that a lot of the times that is the issue, it is because the artist does not draw from the text. when they are true to the text, illustration i...

r louis scott- you rock.

way to go!

crumejack wrote:I am 30 years old and i never celebrate my birth day because i lost one year of my life..

now that sounds like the opening sentence of a very interesting story. :)

Nomad0404 wrote:You can paste your whole manuscript into Wordle and it'll create a word cloud based on it.

It can also provide you with word frequency details etc.

Here's one I just created.

man, the words there really make me want to read this story, i mean spitfire, dragon, McKnight... sounds cool