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, home Blog About Forums Nathan Bransford San Francisco , CA United States Nathan Bransford is the author of Jacob Wonderbar and the Cosmic Space Kapow Dial , May 2011 Jacob Wonderbar for President of the Universe Dial , April 2012 and Jacob Wonderbar and the Interstellar Time Warp Dial , March 2013 He was formerly a literary agent with Curtis Brown Ltd . and is now the social media manager at CNET He lives in San Francisco . View my Complete Profile Contact Me Blog Directory Directory of All Posts Publishing Essentials How to Write a Novel How to Edit a Novel How the Publishing Process Works What Do Literary Agents Do How to Find a Literary Agent How to Write a Query Letter The Basic Query Letter Formula Examples of Good Queries How to Format Your Query Letter How And Whether to List Your
The Renegade Writer About Us Free E-Books E-Courses E-Books Phone Mentoring Query Critiques Free Teleclasses Guest Posting Contact Us Tweet Jump to Comments 9 Great Ways To Capture Your Most Creative Ideas No Matter Where You Are By Tania . Dakka After staring at a blank screen for the last 20 minutes , trying to write your next viral post next , right you give in and give up . It pains you to let the blankness win , but you . concede Next stop . Shower . No sooner does the steaming hot liquid permeates your pore than an idea flits into your . head . Dang No paper . No pen . No . help And there she goes . Too bad because it was a good one , too It Never Fails Don’t you hate that You stress and worry over ideas . You waste precious time searching through Facebook and flipping through your
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: Lloyd of Gamebooks A blog about writing gamebooks . My musings on how to write a gamebook and what makes a good . gamebook Friday , July 27, 2012 Gamebook news for July 2012 I'm releasing my post early because its about current stuff and also because I'm just to darned excited about . it When I started this blog almost two years ago , I wouldn't have thought I would be making posts about gamebook news . nbsp Now it seems like I can't keep up . nbsp So , this is what's going on in the gamebook world . Blood of the Zombies out in August Fighting Fantasy co-founder Ian Livingstone will release his much anticipated gamebook , Blood of the Zombies . nbsp It will be published by Wizard Books on the 9th August 2012 and will be available for 7.99 but if you want it at a lower price and earlier
, home Blog About Forums Nathan Bransford San Francisco , CA United States Nathan Bransford is the author of Jacob Wonderbar and the Cosmic Space Kapow Dial , May 2011 Jacob Wonderbar for President of the Universe Dial , April 2012 and Jacob Wonderbar and the Interstellar Time Warp Dial , March 2013 He was formerly a literary agent with Curtis Brown Ltd . and is now the social media manager at CNET He lives in San Francisco . View my Complete Profile Contact Me Blog Directory Directory of All Posts Publishing Essentials How to Write a Novel How to Edit a Novel How the Publishing Process Works What Do Literary Agents Do How to Find a Literary Agent How to Write a Query Letter The Basic Query Letter Formula Examples of Good Queries How to Format Your Query Letter How And Whether to List Your
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: The Renegade Writer About Us Free E-Books E-Courses E-Books Phone Mentoring Query Critiques Free Teleclasses Guest Posting Contact Us Tweet Jump to Comments The First Hurdle : Why Writers Should Stop Being Scared and Take a Leap of Faith By Aubre . Andrus When I began researching freelance writing and analyzing what it would really take to leave the comfort of the cube , I was astounded at the number of articles , books , and blog posts about jumpstarting a full-time freelance career . I started to get really nervous do freelance writers only write about freelance writing Are there no gigs out there beyond writing about writing One year after I launched my full-time freelance writing business , it hit me : Everyone else is just too chicken shit to pull the trigger . That’s why there is
, home Blog About Forums Nathan Bransford San Francisco , CA United States Nathan Bransford is the author of Jacob Wonderbar and the Cosmic Space Kapow Dial , May 2011 Jacob Wonderbar for President of the Universe Dial , April 2012 and Jacob Wonderbar and the Interstellar Time Warp Dial , March 2013 He was formerly a literary agent with Curtis Brown Ltd . and is now the social media manager at CNET He lives in San Francisco . View my Complete Profile Contact Me Blog Directory Directory of All Posts Publishing Essentials How to Write a Novel How to Edit a Novel How the Publishing Process Works What Do Literary Agents Do How to Find a Literary Agent How to Write a Query Letter The Basic Query Letter Formula Examples of Good Queries How to Format Your Query Letter How And Whether to List Your
, home Blog About Forums Nathan Bransford San Francisco , CA United States Nathan Bransford is the author of Jacob Wonderbar and the Cosmic Space Kapow Dial , May 2011 Jacob Wonderbar for President of the Universe Dial , April 2012 and Jacob Wonderbar and the Interstellar Time Warp Dial , March 2013 He was formerly a literary agent with Curtis Brown Ltd . and is now the social media manager at CNET He lives in San Francisco . View my Complete Profile Contact Me Blog Directory Directory of All Posts Publishing Essentials How to Write a Novel How to Edit a Novel How the Publishing Process Works What Do Literary Agents Do How to Find a Literary Agent How to Write a Query Letter The Basic Query Letter Formula Examples of Good Queries How to Format Your Query Letter How And Whether to List Your
One of the most hotly debated topics in tech comm deals with how writers should cross reference other topics within a help topic. Some writers feel that including contextual or inline links in your help topics distracts low-literacy readers by encouraging them to navigate elsewhere. The low-literacy readers, they argue, end up bouncing from page to [...]
The Renegade Writer About Us Free E-Books E-Courses E-Books Phone Mentoring Query Critiques Free Teleclasses Guest Posting Contact Us Tweet Jump to Comments 4 Things You Should Stop Doing Right Now We writing bloggers are always telling you what to do : Study your markets . Build relationships with editors . Market , market , . market But it can be even more important to talk about what not to do and how to subtract career-damaging attitudes and practices from your . life Stop doing this : . Over-analyzing I recently had a mentoring client who wondered why an editor had rewritten her piece . Was the article that bad Was the tone not right The editor asked her to interview one source , but should she have included two just in case From the book Women Who Think Too Much I learned that women
: : Lloyd of Gamebooks A blog about writing gamebooks . My musings on how to write a gamebook and what makes a good . gamebook Sunday , July 22, 2012 Heroes Rise : The Prodigy review Choice of Games has released a new game based on the life of a superhero . nbsp It is available on iTunes Google Play Kindle and Google Chrome for a mere 2.99 1.92 and it is spectacular . nbsp You can try a free online demo here The wonderful stories are the great strength of Choice of Games and Heroes Rise is no exception . nbsp As is typical of Choice of Games , the first part involves your backstory where you make choices about your name , your sexuality , details about your life , aspects of your personality and certain events that have happened in your past . nbsp Your hero has a high level of
: The Renegade Writer About Us Free E-Books E-Courses E-Books Phone Mentoring Query Critiques Free Teleclasses Guest Posting Contact Us Tweet Jump to Comments Contest : Win a Year-Long Scholarship for Freelance Writers Other Great Prizes It’s the one-year anniversary of Carol Tice’s Freelance Writers Den where I’m honored to be the Other Den Mother , hosting monthly webinars and answering writers’ questions on the . forum So we’re having a contest that starts today and ends July 31st . Grand prize Carol and I are each going to give out one free year’s stay in Freelance Writer’s Den , along with a whole mentoring package designed to kick your career into high . gear We know that times are tough out there still for many writers , and want to offer an opportunity for those who haven’t been
The Renegade Writer About Us Free E-Books E-Courses E-Books Phone Mentoring Query Critiques Free Teleclasses Guest Posting Contact Us Tweet Jump to Comments 6 Proven Tips for Getting into the Write” Mood By Steve . Maurer I am a freelance writer in Fayetteville , Arkansas . I’ve written for clients from Germany to California , all across the United States and in some small . towns I’m also a freelance writer who doesn’t believe in writer’s . block More specifically , I don’t believe in that mythical , wraithlike ogre that sucks the life and soul from a writer , rendering him impotent , unable to put words down on paper or screen . Yes , I still have challenges I just don’t believe that true writer’s block . exists The reason is simple : I can . talk After all , writing is nothing more and
I’m continuing to make my way through James Kalbach’s book, Designing Web Navigation. In chapter 2, he says the structure and format of content helps users anticipate the meaning of the content. He writes, The human visual system naturally seeks structure in information, often very rapidly. Scientists refer to this as “pre-attentive” processing. This occurs [...]
, home Blog About Forums Nathan Bransford San Francisco , CA United States Nathan Bransford is the author of Jacob Wonderbar and the Cosmic Space Kapow Dial , May 2011 Jacob Wonderbar for President of the Universe Dial , April 2012 and Jacob Wonderbar and the Interstellar Time Warp Dial , March 2013 He was formerly a literary agent with Curtis Brown Ltd . and is now the social media manager at CNET He lives in San Francisco . View my Complete Profile Contact Me Blog Directory Directory of All Posts Publishing Essentials How to Write a Novel How to Edit a Novel How the Publishing Process Works What Do Literary Agents Do How to Find a Literary Agent How to Write a Query Letter The Basic Query Letter Formula Examples of Good Queries How to Format Your Query Letter How And Whether to List Your
: : Lloyd of Gamebooks A blog about writing gamebooks . My musings on how to write a gamebook and what makes a good . gamebook Sunday , July 15, 2012 Enjoyable and challenging or unfair and frustrating Part 3 : Conclusion So what have I learnt from this little excercise first of all , my opinion isn't too reliable because I now know the route to victory in all the books I have played and may have forgotten how frustrated I was when I didn't know the route . nbsp I may have been frustrated at Siege of Sardath before I realised how all of the clues fitted together as part of the whole . nbsp An analogy with my initial frustration with gamebooks until I have discovered the route through them can be made by Eddie Izzard's Control P Print' stand up routine 2:57 from this video So here is my
In Designing Web Navigation, James Kalbach starts out by asking why we need navigation at all. Technically, it’s possible to put all the content on the same page. You can show and hide the content through Javascript or other techniques. Although he doesn’t mention it, technical writers are probably familiar with twisties, or drop-down hotspots. [...]
, home Blog About Forums Nathan Bransford San Francisco , CA United States Nathan Bransford is the author of Jacob Wonderbar and the Cosmic Space Kapow Dial , May 2011 Jacob Wonderbar for President of the Universe Dial , April 2012 and Jacob Wonderbar and the Interstellar Time Warp Dial , March 2013 He was formerly a literary agent with Curtis Brown Ltd . and is now the social media manager at CNET He lives in San Francisco . View my Complete Profile Contact Me Blog Directory Directory of All Posts Publishing Essentials How to Write a Novel How to Edit a Novel How the Publishing Process Works What Do Literary Agents Do How to Find a Literary Agent How to Write a Query Letter The Basic Query Letter Formula Examples of Good Queries How to Format Your Query Letter How And Whether to List Your
, home Blog About Forums Nathan Bransford San Francisco , CA United States Nathan Bransford is the author of Jacob Wonderbar and the Cosmic Space Kapow Dial , May 2011 Jacob Wonderbar for President of the Universe Dial , April 2012 and Jacob Wonderbar and the Interstellar Time Warp Dial , March 2013 He was formerly a literary agent with Curtis Brown Ltd . and is now the social media manager at CNET He lives in San Francisco . View my Complete Profile Contact Me Blog Directory Directory of All Posts Publishing Essentials How to Write a Novel How to Edit a Novel How the Publishing Process Works What Do Literary Agents Do How to Find a Literary Agent How to Write a Query Letter The Basic Query Letter Formula Examples of Good Queries How to Format Your Query Letter How And Whether to List Your
Perhaps because of my blog’s title, “I’d Rather Be Writing,” many people think this blog deals with creative writing. As a result, I frequently get asked if I want to review books about writing. Sometimes I say yes. Recently someone sent me A Year of Writing Dangerously: 365 Days of inspiration and Encouragement, by Barbara [...]
: Lloyd of Gamebooks A blog about writing gamebooks . My musings on how to write a gamebook and what makes a good . gamebook Sunday , July 8, 2012 Gamebook news 7th July 2012 Hi all I've made a gamebook news video round up including what's up next month . nbsp Please add more news if you have any . nbsp Happy gamebooking Some gamebook news I had , given from my car I was parked Here are the links for the news : stories The new edition of Destiny : Quest http : www.destiny-quest.com buy Under a Searing : Sky http : www.enoughrecords.scene.org uass Frankenstein by Dave Morris , available for only : 2.99 http : itunes.apple.com gb app frankenstein-for-ipad-iphone id516047066 mt=8 You can get the demo of Frankenstein : here http : fabledlands.blogspot.co.uk 2012 06 frankenstein-web-demo.html
: : Lloyd of Gamebooks A blog about writing gamebooks . My musings on how to write a gamebook and what makes a good . gamebook Saturday , July 7, 2012 Enjoyable and challenging vs unfair and frustrating 2 : Unfair and frustrating Here are some situations from gamebooks or complete gamebooks that I find unfair and frustrating . nbsp Crypt of the Sorcerer I wasn't going to include this on the list as anyone who's played it will think that it goes with out saying that Crypt of the Sorcerer is unfair and frustrating including the entertaining Galactrix but I thought I'd say it anyway because it is a good clear cut example of things that make it unfair and . frustrating Here's a : list The fight with Razaak he's a skill 12 stamina 20 opponent who kills you with two consecutive hits and his