Nathan Bransford - The Forums

Something that really helps me is a one sentence proclamation: I am writing a [Pace] [Genre] about [Log line}, with [Subplot}.

As of the last three years, I currently have about thirty five characters, and that does not include minor characters like family. But that's spread through out seven 350 page books. So I hope I give each character their due diligence.

Do post apocalyptic stories necessarily have to be right at the collapse of society, or can they be on the brink of collapse? I'm doing something where after many wars, the armies of this one continent have almost completely folded to this superstate, and they are on the losing end of a war. It is a...

I tend to start with a one sentence synopsis first, and then expand it to a paragraphs. And then a full length summary. And finally a full length chapter. I have no idea how good I am it though.

Writing a synopsis is not particularly a problem for me, but how many synopsis do you need if your doing a book that's sort of a novel, but more like connected shorts? 8 three thousand word synopsis?

World development, I think I've sort of narrowed down why I have a hard time pantsing a story these days. I can develop a character, and yet my character always ends up floating in a white void. And of course I would still need to know the end. For that matter, how do you get past 4,000 words. For m...

By the way, I apologies if I seemed like a winer. It just I found what they said hurtful.D: But yea, like I'm doing something in between Jennifer Government and 1984. But it has other aspects that make different than just merging different dystopian aspects. Its kind of an odd merger between traditi...

Suppose to leave you with the feeling the person should get lost? For a long all the critiques I ever got were, "Its better than I can do, but keep in mind whatever idea you want to do, has probably already been done." If they actually went line for line about what was good and bad about m...

I sort of figured out a way. Basically I just need a load of different micro premises to help support the main premise. And then derive actions that support each micro premise. I figured out its important to keep your premise simple and concrete. Especially when writing a graphic novel script and no...

Create a whole world to use for a collection of short stories? Often what I do is generate a new world idea. And then I see how many short stories I can come up with to fully explore that world.

The drawback is I have a hard time thinking of anything to say after 2,000 words.

it helps a bunch actually, and will actually help multiple projects i have in mind.:3 i guess for my current synopsis, i can also look up accounts of recent War On Terrorism veterans as well. The middle eastern wars are particularly relevant.

I registered I did not properly introduce myself. I'm sort of a naturally shy person. Anyway I'm sort of an experimental writer. You could say I write post dystopian, though that term seems to have a lot of baggage these days.D: I'm sort of an odd one, as i sometimes prefer to write a synopsis than ...

Its mainly an issue when I want to look up things about the military, understanding ground tactics and guerilla warfare. Things like how logistics work, and other fine details. With my other projects it was always as easy as, "I want to understand 19th century france legal system, so i'll buy t...

I don't know what you call it. I mean I use to be able to write 3,696 words a day. The problem was I could never write more than 3,969 words a day. I use to devote all my research to those first 3,969 words. Which created my first two short stories. The first short story was going to be a three act ...

Ok I figured since more then seventy two hours have passed, it might be ok to update.^_- I wont edit the synopsis if a critique does not mention both the good and the bad. I've avoided critiques cause of this weird habit of some places only mentioning the bad. Oh and, leave pop cultural references t...