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The Writing Life

How are you using A.I. these days?

March 26, 2025 by Nathan Bransford

With social media fragmenting, I’m bringing back my old “You Tell Me” Wednesday discussions to try to get good old fashioned blog conversations going. If you’re reading in a feed reader or via email, please click through to the post to leave a public comment and join the discussion! On Monday I posted about some weekend experiments […]

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You have to make yourself happy first

March 17, 2025 by Nathan Bransford

One of the great open secrets about this blog is that I struggle to implement much of the advice I dish out in these virtual pages. Whenever an author feels chagrined because they have read certain posts of mine a million times and still fail to put the principles into practice, I can very confidently […]

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A dreamy writer’s retreat in Wales

January 20, 2025 by Nathan Bransford

If you have a hankering to get away from it all and hole up in an inspiring little cabin in rural Wales, UK, to write to your heart’s content, have I got just the place for you. Last year, my good friend Julia Forster, a writer, author coach, and publicist, officially opened the Write Within […]

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What are your writing goals for 2025?

January 15, 2025 by Nathan Bransford

With social media fragmenting, I’m bringing back my old “You Tell Me” Wednesday discussions to try to get good old fashioned blog conversations going. If you’re reading in a feed reader or via email, please click through to the post to leave a public comment and join the discussion! With everything going on in the Pasadena area […]

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Do you write chronologically or bounce around?

November 13, 2024 by Nathan Bransford

With social media fragmenting, I’m bringing back my old “You Tell Me” Wednesday discussions to try to get good old fashioned blog conversations going. If you’re reading in a feed reader or via email, please click through to the post to leave a public comment and join the discussion! When some writers I know get stuck, they […]

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Writers point the way forward

November 11, 2024 by Nathan Bransford

A metaphor I often use for the writing process is transubstantiation. In Christianity, transubstantiation is the belief that the bread and wine used during communion is transformed into the literal body and blood of Christ. Through prayer, the ordinary is transformed into something holy. And what is writing? Authors draw from deep wells of personal […]

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