Bransford's Publishing Process

If you follow Nathan Bransford's blog religiously then you have already seen what I want to share.

If you don't let me introduce you to a brilliant little post he made about the publishing process.

It's funny.

It's so true.

It's has some fabulous casting.

NATHAN BRANSFORD'S 

The Publishing Process in GIF Form

Here's the teaser. It just get's better...

At first you're thinking of writing a novel and you're all...

But then you have an idea!

And you go...

CLICK HERE TO SEE THE REST!

If you don't stand for something. You'll fall for anything.

This is my friend in New York who rides the subway without his pants for Improv Everywhere and stand-up every chance that he gets.

He decided he wanted to be part of the Wall Street protests.

Protesting as only Brian would.

If you don't know what Improv Everywhere is, it is my pleasure to introduce you to it.
Grand Central Station (the first and classic)
No Pants Subway
No Shirts Abercrombie
Look Up More (Best feel good one)
Who You Gonna Call? (Nostalgia)

And here is some more Brian, while we're at it.
City of Byron City
High School Reunion Video
Sexy 'Stache (parody of Sexy Back)

Come up with something new, stat!

When my husband first started writing he would explain some of his plot points and characters that he was envisioning and I would say:

"Oh, you mean like...(fill in a movie or book)"

and he would say, "Yeah, but..."
and we would play that game over and over.

Eventually he said something that rocked my world. 

He said: "It doesn't all have to be new."

Then I remembered all of...
the Chris Farley movies I've seen
 the Cinderella books I've read.

I still love Jack Black! (Sorry Jim.)
I have read a million rout mystery novels.

My couch is couch shaped

We could eat pizza in our house every night

Don't even get me started on Scooby Doo

HE WAS RIGHT!

I still liked these things, even if they weren't entirely new ideas.

So, now I cut myself some slack when a character or plot point doesn't seem entirely original. 

I'm the one breathing life into them.
They'll never be a carbon copies of someone else's creation. 

Of course you need to be careful but...

If the wheel ain't broke, why reinvent it?

This kid's got the idea

(That was for of you, Kim K)

Oh, the troubles of new technology!

I feel like such a teeny tiny blue bird hopping around aimlessly on Twitter. I am having so much trouble understanding the medium. I can Facebook, chat, video conference, text, email, and blog but I'm a pretty terrible tweeter. I keep looking for the 'like' button. I want to make a brief comment about someone's tweet but not subject everyone who follows me to this "LOL" or "Me too!!"

I just have to remind myself that I am not the first person who was befuddled by new technology.

I am willing to take any Twitter advice anyone has for me.

I'm pretty Twerrible. 

(Yes, I just said that. No, I won't delete it.)

Genres

There is a lot of talk about genres in the publishing industry and I have been getting closer to understanding the subtle nuances
BUT this clarified everything



This was a video that Sarah Eden made for the LDStorymakers Writers Conference this May. If you don't know Sarah, you should! She writes the cutest romance novels. What? You don't read cute romance novels? Then what about some kissing, bad mouthed, vampire novels? I think they call that YA?
(I kinda threw up in my mouth looking at those vampire books)