Nathan Bransford - The Forums

Online video games and video game forums aren't bad. Though that tends to be 'leetspeak,' a sub-category of teenspeak.

I'll give this a shot. Dear Wonderful agent, Kirby was forced to move into the small town of Capingham with her grandma when her parents were murdered. See how this sentence can be read in two different ways? You should split it up into two sentences, starting with the murder. Plus, it's in passive...

Once upon a horse Sonja feared the darkness across the river might be too deep. Sighing, she turned and found a block of cheese made of Venusian so she picked up a sword to pierce into the looming thicket. "No!" said the block of cheese! "Don't go there!" But the cheese did not k...

To make sure I didn't bash my head in back in my creative writing classes in college, I came up with a couple rules. If you get one criticism about something, go ahead and ignore it, unless you agree with it. If you get a criticism about something and it comes from two or more people, then you need ...

This may help-

http://blog.nathanbransford.com/2008/08 ... gents.html

Dear Awesome Agent, [Personalization] When infamous James Duke stepped into Dr. Laura Masters' fledgling office she was both excited and intimidated This is okay with me, since it's answered in the following sentence . Certainly, she needed the money and his celebrity added a challenge to his mental...

I've read a ton of writing books, and I second or third or sixth King's book. But my all-time fav is John Garder's The Art of Fiction. Also, Plot & Structure by James Scott Bell is pretty decent.

Hello Nathan, In the first few episodes of Californication, Hank Moody's agent gets Hank a job writing a blog for a company. Is this normal? Do agents get approached by companies looking for writing talent? Or is it strictly book publishing? Just wondering if any other opportunities open up when get...