Nathan Bransford - The Forums

No this antagonist is not going to be well liked by the readers. With that said, my goal is to get the readers to believe that defeating him will be very difficult. My thoughts are to have the pro come close to defeating the ant and to have the readers believe he will be defeated but in the ant gets...

Thriller novels, there's a protagonist and antagonist. Usually the antagonist is defeated, end of story. As a reader how do you feel if the antagonist is not defeated but gets away? In my outline I'm playing with both. In one ending I have the antagonist killing the protagonist girlfriend and gettin...

Don Donatello is a bit redundant for me. It's not a bad name but I'm not a big fan of having the same sounds in first and last names. I really like the others, especially Luca Vitale. If you're having trouble coming up with names, try http://www.behindthename.com/random/. It's a random name generat...

The "Don" stands for Boss of bosses or Godfather if that helps. I'm not too satisfied with that name either, I just feel like their maybe something there but it's not quite right. Maybe a tweak here or there will give me something. I like Joe Fazzini, but I wonder if the reader will have a...

"you're such a nerd."

But it sounded like this

"yer sucha nerd."

It's hard. When I see names in novels like Mitch Rapp, or Lucas Davenport, I think to myself those are good names for a protagonist. When I look at the names I've picked out they are so so. What do you guys think of these names? I'm writing a mafia thriller. Joe Fazzini (Protagonist) Don Donatello (...

Light from the full moon sliced the landscape into sharply detailed white highlights and dark blue shadows. Thanks for the review. I think you may be right, it is mundane and could be caused by quite a few things. Just for more info on the sentence it's a recessed light from a jail cell. It's crazy...

My favorite part of writing is not writing at all, instead it's the creation I love the most. For some reason creating a life out of nothing but my thoughts is exciting. The writing is a close second.

Walking through Barnes and Noble today I saw a book titled

Super women can eat it!

Did it again with my blog and it came up with William Gibson.

Looks like I write like James Joyce. Hmmm.

John Grisham

Vince Flynn

Title: None Genre: Mafia thriller Not the first page but the second One afternoon Joe was looking to the local Italian Market shops for work when he spotted his mother getting harassed by some local thugs in their teens. They're trying to make names for themselves as small time-hoods and often picke...

I went back a page and didn't see a first sentence that hasn't already been rated, so here's mine.




A single recessed light bulb flickers on every morning around the same time.