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NaNoWriMo Boot Camp: Goals and Obstacles

October 26, 2010 by Nathan Bransford 40 Comments

Alright, men and women. Day Two of Boot Camp! You have your novel idea. Now it’s time to fill it page in and page out with various events that keep the reader’s interest. How exactly do you do that? Novels don’t just spill themselves onto the page (or at least they shouldn’t!). It’s best to […]

Filed Under: Writing Advice Tagged With: Battlestar Galactica, How to Write a Novel, Jonathan Franzen

What Writing and Lying Have in Common

March 4, 2010 by Nathan Bransford 97 Comments

I am a terrible liar. I’m bad at platitudes, I can’t tell people I like their writing when I don’t, and I was never able to get myself out of trouble as a kid. Let’s just say that if I were captured by stormtroopers and held in the Death Star and I knew the location […]

Filed Under: The Writing Life Tagged With: Battlestar Galactica, Dialogue, How to Write a Novel, Star Wars, writing advice

Query Deluge!!

January 11, 2010 by Nathan Bransford 175 Comments

Whoa boy am I getting a lot of queries these days. In addition to the 400 or so I received over the holidays, I came in this morning to another 100+ that had accumulated over the weekend. To put that in perspective, last year I received about 110 over a three day weekend, and that […]

Filed Under: Literary Agents Tagged With: Battlestar Galactica, How to Find a Literary Agent, How to Write a Query Letter

The Finalists! (as announced by Dwight Schrute)

October 16, 2009 by Nathan Bransford 804 Comments

UPDATE: VOTING IS CLOSED!! Hey all, if you don’t watch the American version of The Office then this might not make sense. Thanks to Cory Clubb for inspiring the idea. Greetings. I am Dwight K. Schrute, Assistant Regional Manag… fine, Assistant to the Regional Manager, Dunder Mifflin Scranton. I have been… you haven’t heard of […]

Filed Under: Contests Tagged With: Battlestar Galactica, contests, The Office

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