Den of Writers | Bella | Mentions https://www.denofwriters.com/members/bellam/activity/mentions/ Activity feed mentioning Bella. Fri, 22 May 2026 14:42:02 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-GB 30 hourly 2 8bcd2b6b442332726212d0ad0ed0e252 Daedalus replied to the topic Richard's Musical Byways: Fairport Convention, Sandy Denny, and Percy's Song in the forum Blogs https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/richards-musical-byways-fairport-convention-sandy-denny-and-percys-song/#post-10037 Fri, 19 Mar 2021 11:59:01 +0000 @bellam, perhaps you can help me. I remember as a child hearing about a pirate radio ship that had been caught in a storm and had to put into Harwich, when it was impounded. I was there with my Mum and she pointed it out to me. I just remember a small, red ship. This was in the mid 1980s. I can’t find any references to it. I know we still had…[Read more]

]]> 0 a2cb7e31a7e1219766004ebbf0bf665e JaneShuff posted a new activity comment https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/14857/#acomment-14865 Wed, 15 Jul 2020 07:28:58 +0000 Thanks @kazg. And thank @bellam and @sandradavies. I’ve had a another go just concentrating on telling what happens and ignoring the POV and it is falling into place.

In reply to - JaneShuff posted an update i amtrying to write a synopsis for a novel with multiple timelines and viewpoints. I cannot write the synopsis so that each time and POV shift is noted because it will be too long. Do you […] ]]> 0eab3d293b485c2999f4d281d456ff00 KazG replied to the topic Class 3: Writing Exercise, Bella in the forum Andrew Wille's DIY MA course https://www.denofwriters.com/groups/andrew-willes-diy-ma-course/forum/topic/class-3-writing-exercise-bella/#post-7394 Sat, 01 Feb 2020 02:32:14 +0000 So very interesting @bellam, especially as your explanations show just how much you have buried below the surface of the letters. Very well done, both of them.

I too got a sense of a unreliable narrator in the first letter – do we believe her? I doubted her – and in the second one you have nailed the young, inexperienced voice and that line…[Read more]

]]> 0 350a0efd09d6f0a4770340c69cd4d3d7 Raine replied to the topic Class 3: Writing Exercise, Raine. in the forum Andrew Wille's DIY MA course https://www.denofwriters.com/groups/andrew-willes-diy-ma-course/forum/topic/class-3-writing-exercise-raine/#post-7379 Fri, 31 Jan 2020 12:56:53 +0000 Thanks @sandradavies and @bellam both. It’s interesting – as I was writing this, I was thinking that it didn’t really tell me anything about the ‘inner lives’ of either Abigail or John. But in hindsight, perhaps it does. More about John though than Abigail, I think?

And yes, I think she needed to get out fast, and I think she did. She felt quite…[Read more]

]]> 0 5d28c14ec1ca4fb221e72fdfa7a31c04 Alan Rain replied to the topic Brexit dismay in the forum Coffee Shop https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/brexit-dismay/#post-7185 Fri, 17 Jan 2020 22:38:46 +0000 @bellam Happy new year to you, too.
Those rifts are very deep and go way beyond mere viewpoints. Because of various issues that I won’t mention here, I don’t expect to see any healing in our society for the foreseeable future.
I wish I could share your optimism, but I can’t.
Good luck with your writing.

@Richardb Regarding politics, I did…[Read more]

]]> 0 a8d6c39a9d8a21cf5d9aae7ae2c86e9c Philippa East replied to the topic Help/brainstorming needed please - using antagonist narrator in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/help-brainstorming-needed-please-using-antagonist-narrator/#post-4890 Fri, 05 Apr 2019 17:08:18 +0000 Hey @bellam, I just saw an extract of your book on the JW slushpile live video (with the Bent Agency). I thought it was great, and I’m so intrigued about your characters, especially Molly. Hope you’ve worked our your narrative device…. 🙂

]]> 0 87029a1c920a24389810f8213e94e59f JaneShuff replied to the topic Opening of new WIP- 1289 words in the forum Critiques https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/opening-of-new-wip-1289-words/#post-4812 Fri, 29 Mar 2019 07:54:28 +0000 It didn’t seem slow to me at all @bellam. Lots of great stuff. An unhappy heroine with a tricky relationship with her annoying mother who clearly has secrets in her past. And now she’s going to have to go on some ghastly coach trip with her. I’d read on. Particularly as she’s got an old and much loved cat. Only one comment – maybe the back story…[Read more]

]]> 0 83ac4202e19e36448f1d30b111d16aed KazG replied to the topic Help/brainstorming needed please - using antagonist narrator in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/help-brainstorming-needed-please-using-antagonist-narrator/#post-4678 Tue, 12 Mar 2019 23:34:29 +0000 What an interesting idea, @bellam. I think this could defintely work.

Maybe one way to play it would be writing Molly in a slightly unreliable narrator way, so the reader is never quite sure whether it really is the house narrating, or Molly’s mental state projecting her own anxieties. I like the Stockholm Syndrome possibilities here too – the…[Read more]

]]> 0 d0d54bffbbd897bfea8db18c06f9ed92 JaneShuff replied to the topic Help/brainstorming needed please - using antagonist narrator in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/help-brainstorming-needed-please-using-antagonist-narrator/#post-4614 Sat, 09 Mar 2019 07:59:05 +0000 Oh I think you could make it work @bellam. On one level the house could be a sort of manifestation of the forces inside Molly’s head keeping her imprisoned and I like the duality of it being a safe place and a prison at the same time.

]]> 0 f01c28fd6e06ff922934b199010edd68 Alan Rain replied to the topic Help/brainstorming needed please - using antagonist narrator in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/help-brainstorming-needed-please-using-antagonist-narrator/#post-4609 Fri, 08 Mar 2019 23:19:12 +0000 @Bellam, Have you thought of Molly’s slippers?

]]> 0 de8f0f1906000344f186bddb2272285c Raine posted a new activity comment https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/7586/#acomment-7639 Thu, 07 Feb 2019 10:20:59 +0000 @bellam those platforms are a genius idea! Could have done with them in Poland – although it was the very protective mummies who made me more nervous tbh, especially when gorgeous humbugs decided to check out my boots!!

In reply to - John S Alty posted an update Kung Hei Fat Choi! It’s now the year of the pig. ]]> e9203e98ad08482576579619b1c0f4e5 Alan Rain replied to the topic Opinion about title in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/opinion-about-title/#post-2419 Sat, 20 Oct 2018 15:30:27 +0000 Thanks for your input @athelstone @seagreen @Janeshuff @kazg @Squidge @elle @Bellam
That 5 of you go towards YA / Children’s and the other 2 suggest SF / Fantasy tells me that the original name is still the one to use, although I will still make a minor tweak to it.
So, yes, it’s a literary-leaning novel about possession, with the MFC split.
To…[Read more]

]]> 0 aa2dc82dc7e6628665a03801444d5d72 KazG replied to the topic New title needed for 'Snatched' - help! in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/new-title-needed-for-snatched-help/#post-2393 Wed, 17 Oct 2018 22:07:58 +0000 You lot are fantastic! Thank you all so much for brainstorming for me 🙂

@seagreen and @janeshuff – I think you’re really onto something there with The Time Stealer/Snatcher’s… and using that to bundle the series together. Going to ponder that.

@jd73 that made me snort – Iron Maiden’s back catalogue 🙂 But I love them. And I’m leaning…[Read more]

]]> 0 4359697e2d2422341e00a63f44326b03 Alan Rain replied to the topic My failure in the forum Podium https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/my-failure/#post-1794 Tue, 25 Sep 2018 17:01:05 +0000 @Bellam @PhilippaEast @Squidge Thanks for your kind words, but it’s difficult for a self-driven person not to be harsh with himself.

]]> 0 a14ebd8c401b464767b8b8bcaf5eca8a Philippa East replied to the topic My failure in the forum Podium https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/my-failure/#post-1788 Tue, 25 Sep 2018 13:58:44 +0000 @alanr, commiseration on the “failures”, but it’s never a failure to put your work out there and to try. Glad you got some useful feedback at your one–to-one and you’ve found a way to implement it

@bellam I am excited about the new computer. I do agree that we remain writers even when not physically writing. It’s nice that you can see that your…[Read more]

]]> 0 e9e6e84f3483f2574a13b1d83bafbeb4 Raine replied to the topic Pitching opportunity for northern writers in the forum Competitions, Open calls and Writing Opportunities https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/pitching-opportunity-for-northern-writers/page/2/#post-1634 Fri, 21 Sep 2018 14:13:51 +0000 @jd73 Bluemoose are supposed to be really good aren’t they? One of the big hitter indies. So good luck with them!
@bellam if you are southeast, keep an eye out cos there are loads more of these kinds of things in and around London. Are you on Twitter? They are forever coming up on my TL, and always down south somewhere (sigh).

]]> 0 3f10b72aec69ef84e30a109b4d64958e Debi Alper replied to the topic A Brief History of York Festivals in the forum Blogs http://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/a-brief-history-of-york-festivals/page/2/#post-951 Mon, 10 Sep 2018 23:25:19 +0000 @bellam – it was indeed recorded. Please excuse me for shouting, everyone, but MANDY WAS BLOODY BRILLIANT!

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