Nathan Bransford - The Forums

Just throwing my two cents in, since I recently did a survey on what is the "acceptable" word count for fantasy, versus the word count of a lot of first time fantasy novels, and Ink is correct. Jim Butcher, for example, wrote the first of a series, and then went on to write the second and ...

I am going to second-third-fifth the previous mentions of: On Writing By Stephen King Writing the Breaout Novel and Fire in Fiction by Donald Maass The First Five Pages by Noah Lukeamn Stein on Writing by Sol Stein Characters and Viewpoint and Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy by Orson Scott Card ...

Nick said: Also I would totally go gay for my protag. Just sayin'. ROTFLMAO. Sounds like I want to met him! I am writing urban fantasy. I pretty much stay there, though the novels might have a splash of some other element, like western or science fiction. But even ideas that start out mainstream wi...

Obesity.

I like words. A lot. I like to gorge myself on them until the novel gets fat and bloated…currently I am editing, and desperately trying to get my novel to go on a diet. I supervise the words it eats, but I suspect it binges on adverbs and passive voice while I am asleep.

*headdesk*

Wow, Magic. I haven't played that in a loooong time. I am glad to find more nerds. I had a B and W Clerics deck around Onslaught block that I totally WON A TOURAMENT WITH! Boo-ya! Darth Form Rejekdar, priceless. Makes me think about that Weird Al parody, The Saga Begins, where he parodies Episode On...

Interesting post. I don’t have a backup plan. I never considered the idea that I might not get published. I am sure that sounds naïve, and I don’t mean that I am free of self-doubt and discouragement (I have more than my share if you ask me), but it’s never occurred to me that I won’t someday, even ...