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Bella replied to the topic My Publishing Nightmare – the story of a book deal gone bad (Part 1) in the forum Blogs 7 years, 2 months ago
Thank you. This has been an interesting, if worrying and depressing, read. Caveat author.
Good for you for being so persistent in the face of such recalcitrance.
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Bella posted a new activity comment 7 years, 2 months ago
It is indeed a lot of money. It is rather aimed at complete beginners as far as I can tell, because somewhere (possibly in a blog about it) Harry has said that if you have completed a novel and are editing it then it probably isn’t for you (at least not for that novel) so it does seem like a write from scratch hand-holding affair. I’m sure that it…[Read more]
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Bella posted an update 7 years, 3 months ago
Dan Brown is a bit of a guilty pleasure. But if he tells me ONE MORE TIME that Prof Langdon has an eidetic memory I shall fling “Origin” out of the window. I don’t need a **@&£** eidetic memory to remember that Langdon has one. End of rant.
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I read ‘The Little Stranger’ and thought if Sarah Waters tells me one more time that Dr Faraday does things gently, I’d rip the book up. I couldn’t though, because it was a library book.
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Bella replied to the topic My Writing Journey to… Well, Nowhere Very Much in the forum Blogs 7 years, 3 months ago
I enjoyed reading A Record of Sin on the Cloud and I think it deserves to see the light of day. So good luck with the submissions when you get to that stage.
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Bella posted a new activity comment 7 years, 3 months ago
Slightly hesitant to pile on as I have not met her personally, but she was on a Jericho Writers slush pile live webinar and was on the whole negative.
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Bella posted an update 7 years, 3 months ago
30k words in and I’ve stalled. It’s not that I don’t know what happens – far from it. I just cannot get myself to write it.
The problem is that I need a different narrator. Part of me wants to get on and finish the first draft, switching the narrator now, and then going back to edit the first 30k. Part of me doesn’t want to write another word…[Read more]
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I know the feeling – you have my sympathy. All the advice I can offer is to go for whichever option will help you keep moving forward. If the nagging in your head is so insistent you can’t go on, then go back and fix. If the thought of fixing the first 30k is too onerous and you want to head on to the conclusion, then do that. Although there’s…[Read more]
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Oh Bella. I do feel for you. FWIW that often happens to me. I get a good way into something and then have a blinding flash of inspiration as to a better way to write it. Good luck with whatever you decide to do.
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Maybe fix the opening 3-4 chapters (10k or so), so you know you can do it, and then skip ahead and plough on the with the rest? Either way, hope you install soon x
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*un-stall
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Oh, the dreaded 30K running-into-a-brick-wall-at-full-speed. Happens to me all the time – about 1/3 of the way through, or about 25 / 30K words in. FWIW, the last two times, I went back and edited from the start as I couldn’t face the idea of getting to the end of the draft and then having to go back and fix the start. It also meant that once…[Read more]
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Bella replied to the topic My Publishing Nightmare – the story of a book deal gone bad (Part 1) in the forum Blogs 7 years, 3 months ago
I don’t think you should feel silly at all. It’s very easy to fall into such traps, especially when we’ve been trying for EVER to get published. Someone I know fell hook line and sinker into the claws of a fake/vanity agent and there was no telling her, though I and several others tried.
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Bella replied to the topic Monster Anthology opportunity in the forum Competitions, Open calls and Writing Opportunities 7 years, 3 months ago
@Newbie – your stuff would seem to fit the bill here. Can’t see anything to say you can’t have self-pubbed, but I have not read the terms in detail.
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Bella posted a new activity comment 7 years, 3 months ago
@raine I adore the baby humbugs. Utterly cute. They have escape ladders and platforms attached to trees in the Austrian woods to get away from angry Dad pigs, though.
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Bella replied to the topic Entering the Citadel in the forum Blogs 7 years, 3 months ago
I’m buzzing for you. What a ride! And thank you so much for taking the time to tell us honestly what it is actually like.
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Bella replied to the topic Publishing Deal in the forum Podium 7 years, 3 months ago
I can’t wait to read it. Sounds super.
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Bella replied to the topic Getting An Agent Blog in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 7 years, 3 months ago
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!
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Bella replied to the topic My Publishing Nightmare – the story of a book deal gone bad (Part 1) in the forum Blogs 7 years, 3 months ago
I have just been over to refresh my memory. A really useful warning – thank you. Looking forward to the next instalment.
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Bella posted a new activity comment 7 years, 4 months ago
Yes, yes, yes. Thanks for drawing my attention to it.
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Thanks @richardb
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Bella posted a new activity comment 7 years, 4 months ago
No snow (thank goodness). Essex. Had a few flakes last night but they didn’t settle.
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Bella posted a new activity comment 7 years, 4 months ago
Thanks. You too, and all Denizens. May 2019 bring you all you want it to.
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Bella posted a new activity comment 7 years, 5 months ago
BLLM here. Sounds like what I say when I really want to swear but we have company.
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Bella replied to the topic Two newses in the forum Podium 7 years, 5 months ago
Lovely news, Raine. Good for you.
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Bella posted a new activity comment 7 years, 6 months ago
I would, too. I read that one of the agents I have subbed to is a cat person and I felt the need to come clean about the fact that I kill the cat later in the novel. Have probably shot myself in the foot, now.
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Bella posted an update 7 years, 6 months ago
Saw a post on Facebook that could easily apply to one’s writing (mine, anyway).
“Don’t cling to a mistake just because you spent a long time making it.”
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That’s wise advice, Bella. I guess that’s the writerly version of the outfit that has never been worn but remains in the wardrobe because it was expensive. Alas, I’m guilty on both counts!
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