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Daedalus replied to the topic My Publishing Nightmare – the story of a book deal gone bad (Part 1) in the forum Blogs 5 years, 2 months ago
So here it is – Part 3, the conclusion of the story of my publishing nightmare, and how I finally recovered the rights to my novel from an intransigent and uncaring publisher. It was financially costly – but not nearly as costly as it might have been, and taught me a great deal about what not to do next time. Final blogpost, with as much in the…[Read more]
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Philippa East replied to the topic Some notes on Dara Marks' Transformational Arc in the forum Blogs 5 years, 6 months ago
That’s great, @raine, and so nicely explained.
I find so many similarities between the many varied “models” of story structure, and the many evolving models we use in psychiatry to diagnose and treat mental health conditions.
Mental health conditions (the fairly predictable ways in which the human brain breaks down) have a sort of inherent…[Read more]
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Raine started the topic Some notes on Dara Marks' Transformational Arc in the forum Blogs 5 years, 6 months ago
To allow me to share this wider, I’m posting my notes on the Transformational Arc from Dara Marks’ book ‘Inside Story’.
Here’s the pretty graph itself:
Dara Marks’ Transformational Arc
The Transformational Arc expands/combines the basic character arc and 3 act structures into this:
Act I: Character is in ‘Resistance’ – at the start of…[Read more]
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Squidge replied to the topic Hello All in the forum Coffee Shop 5 years, 8 months ago
Good to know Mashie’s Twittery thing’s working! (says she who has no idea how to Twitter). Good to have you on board, Alan.
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Jules replied to the topic Hello All in the forum Coffee Shop 5 years, 8 months ago
Hi Alan 🙂 Welcome to the Den
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Daedalus replied to the topic Hello All in the forum Coffee Shop 5 years, 8 months ago
Hi Alan, good to make your acquaintance