Den of Writers | Alan Rain | Favourites https://www.denofwriters.com/members/alanr/activity/favorites/ Activity feed of Alan Rain's favourites. Mon, 25 May 2026 07:26:59 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-GB 30 hourly 2 6cd5f2c7a9899fffe7e78d33087fd780 Daedalus replied to the topic My Publishing Nightmare – the story of a book deal gone bad (Part 1) in the forum Blogs https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/my-publishing-nightmare-the-story-of-a-book-deal-gone-bad-part-1/#post-4567 Thu, 07 Mar 2019 19:10:30 +0000 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]

]]> 0 808ea5a07ec64cbeec4670c70ac8ddf9 Philippa East replied to the topic Some notes on Dara Marks' Transformational Arc in the forum Blogs https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/some-notes-on-dara-marks-transformational-arc/#post-2578 Thu, 25 Oct 2018 11:52:38 +0000 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]

]]> 0 f983abf9e73b3da1ec5446f6a178a638 Raine started the topic Some notes on Dara Marks' Transformational Arc in the forum Blogs https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/some-notes-on-dara-marks-transformational-arc/ Thu, 25 Oct 2018 10:54:31 +0000 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]

]]> 0 c6036744aa4f0573f27db15703705c64 Squidge replied to the topic Hello All in the forum Coffee Shop https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/hello-all/page/8/#post-1415 Sun, 16 Sep 2018 18:36:00 +0000 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.

]]> 0 d8a805e0281be5552b178b21832715b4 Jules replied to the topic Hello All in the forum Coffee Shop https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/hello-all/page/8/#post-1412 Sun, 16 Sep 2018 18:20:15 +0000 Hi Alan 🙂 Welcome to the Den

]]> 0 93cf6418db5a5eefdef439b8247cbca6 Daedalus replied to the topic Hello All in the forum Coffee Shop https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/hello-all/page/7/#post-1409 Sun, 16 Sep 2018 18:06:05 +0000 Hi Alan, good to make your acquaintance

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