Nathan Bransford - The Forums

I have a picture to go with this, but i couldn't figure out how to upload it :) 1st RULE: You do not talk about Write Club (but typing about it's okay). 2nd RULE: You DO NOT talk about Write Club (or any strange feeling of déjà vu you may have just experienced). 3rd RULE: If someone says ‘stop’, goe...

Figure out what works best for you, then do that...a lot

One thing I learned from my music days. Just because a song is in tune, doesn't mean it's good. Most of our ideas never made it to the completed song stage, because we learned to recognize when something had potential or was simply okay. A fair number of those we completed turned out less well than ...

I'm the same. I love writing a good conversation

Claudie wrote:While outlining will make you good at knowing how you want to end, it doesn't teach you the down and dirty writing skills you need to write those climaxes

I'd rather learn those down and dirty skills with a story I'm happy with

I see what you mean about finishing, though I don't think the logic applies to folks like me who use (an albeit rough) outline from the get go.

Thanks for the input, guys

Every performer dreads these words: “Boo! Rubbish! Get off! My cat sings better than you, and he’s been dead five years!” In my days as lead singer and keyboard player with the (deservedly) unsuccessful rock band, Gentleman Jones*, I heard those words often. Luckily, my old gran couldn’t attend ever...

MattLarkin wrote:#10 Don't worry if you don't understand the novel. I can explain it all over dinner.

"And you're paying."

Even though it wasn’t real, the most famous ‘query letter’ of all time has to be the one immortalized by the Beatles within the lyrics of their 1966 classic, Paperback Writer . But what if Paul McCartney (who wrote the song) really had been an unknown wannabe, trying to get an agent or editor to rea...

justcrash wrote:#10 - Don't worry, the affects of the drug are only temporary.

Excellent

Quill wrote:10. Grrrr, )*/+@! trap door's stuck. Maintenance is gonna...

That sounds like one disgruntled agent

Watcher55 wrote:Here's my brother-in-law's card. He does free-lance carbon dating work, and you should really have that looked at.

Now that's just mean.

I like it

You finally did it. Mouth dry, hands sweatier than the hands of someone who sweats a lot, you made that in-person pitch to the agent of your dreams. Incredibly, the words you rehearsed a thousand times in the last week came out smoother than you ever dreamed possible. No stutter or tremble in your ...

Thomas Burchfield wrote:"What if they were vampires? No, wait. No, wait, if they were zombies? No wait. What if they were vampires AND zombies! And there's a teenage girl detective with a drinking problem! No, wait . . . ."

Lol, you laugh now, but give it time and they'll prbably make it a TV show

That'd be a real quick visit