Nathan Bransford - The Forums

You're welcome, trini. I overlooked foreword. A foreword is an introduction to an author or some pertinent detail not necessary for understanding a story that might offer deeper insight into a story from knowing, for one example, some backstory about an author's real-life experiences that parallel t...

I read the Internet from cover to cover and find lots of useful infomation on a variety of topics, including but not limited to the arena of rhetoric concerned with creative writing and literature study. Lately, I've been reading up on the aesthetics of rhetoric as pertains to voice, exotic species ...

Sounds to me like a fundamental theme category rather than a genre category, per se. Each of the titles named as "like" suggest to me something along the lines of a loss of innocence, coming of age, right of passage, some kind of initiation into a life stage story. There's more than the in...

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A preface is an author's introduction to a story. A prologue is an opening introduction narrated by a narrator or character within the body of a story. A prelude is an introduction of an action or an event preparatory to a main action or event. Backstory is pertinent detail happening in the past tim...

I'm a sketch and treatment writer, combining loose outline scripting and out of the mist organic. "What's my motivation?" I ask for each character. "What's my complication?" "What's the point of the scene?" "What does it mean?" Coming soon, Twin Souls and the ...