Nathan Bransford - The Forums

It's been a long week...

Guess it's a good thing I extended my contest!! :)

Just a reminder that my flash contest is still going on... ;) http://www.reganleigh.com/?p=1706

Hannah!!! I would also like to remind you how much I love your writing and blog. :) AND yell at you for not reading Hunger Games. I shun thee. For the night. Tomorrow all will be well between us. ;)

LOL Mira, I think we can still be friends. ;) Hope the rant helped. :D I love a good rant once in a while. For the record, I completely understand. I also disagree completely with those that treat writers badly and unprofessionally. I think I've just seen less of that, but probably because as soon a...

I'm having a little challenge over on my blog. :) Fall Flash Challenge: Picture Prompt It’s time to get down and dirty for the wonderful, creepy Halloween season. I love this time of year, don’t you? Rules: Your challenge is to write a flash piece, no more than 1000 words in length. It can be about...

So for those of you 100% against it, what do you think about the more appropriate examples given in this thread? I 100% agree that the venting and such comes off unprofessional. But if I'm following someone that uses those more appropriate examples (as mentioned above) I don't get offended by it. I'...

I know some people get really offended by this, but I honestly find some of it very instructional. Again, I don't think any of it should be specific enough to out the sender, and it shouldn't be demeaning to the writer. Agreed. I've seen agents and interns that have used this method in a profession...

I'm interested in hearing the opinions related to an issue that was brought up on Twitter today. (Not the first time.) Some agents and/or agent interns have been known to tweet out commentary as they read through the query pile. (Totally made up example: YA book about vamps again. Great query makes ...

Remmik wrote:

Regan Leigh wrote: and I’m still dead.

Well, crap. :D

LOL! Thanks for sharing that, Regan Leigh.

Yeah, I read Nathan's crit and growled loud enough to make my dog bark. :D Stupid openers. Always demanding edits.

Congrats to katehyde, whose page is below: Title: The Vestibule of Heaven Genre: "Book club" fiction Word count: 250 I knew her, of course, the first time she came to the house; one of the advantages of being dead is the ability to see beneath the surface. When I willed the house and all ...

[quote="Nathan Bransford"]I have two main thoughts. The first is opening the first sentence with someone who is dead. I know there's a temptation to want to just go ahead and alert the reader that the narrator is dead, but over the past few years the "Description description, but then...

Ditto to both of these.

"Keep it Together", by Guster.

Casimir Pulaski Day by Sufjan Stevens

And let's not forget...



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I'm going to bed now before I post ten more videos.

There are so many great ballads and songs that tell whole stories, from Hurricane by Bob Dylan to Rocky Raccoon by the Beatles. What's your favorite? I'm going to have to go with the Mariner's Revenge Song by the Decemberists. It doesn't surprise me at all that the lead singer, Colin Meloy, is goin...

Writer Love: Special Feature on Simon

*Another post where I feature a writer and their writing space.*

Link is in my signature.

Man! I've been working on a job related website for two days now...and I'm exhausted. :) I had wanted to give my website a nice new shiny look soon, but this one has drained me enough to want a break. Suddenly my site doesn't seem so bad. ;)