-
JaneShuff replied to the topic Interesting article about developing your voice in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 7 years, 3 months ago
Thanks @daedalus. It is very interesting!
-
Daedalus started the topic Interesting article about developing your voice in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 7 years, 3 months ago
We talk about voice a lot as writers but I rarely see resources specifically about developing it. This is interesting from Kirsty Logan
https://www.bridportprize.org.uk/news/six-ways-develop-your-writers-voice-kirsty-logan
-
JaneShuff posted an update 7 years, 3 months ago
Does anyone know how to type with a cat on their lap?
-
Long arms??
-
fur-iously
-
igmc
-
‘fur-iously’ – Ath!! IGMC??? I Groan Mightily Cwik? If God Made Cats?
-
I’ll Get My Coat, I think. 😂 I have a cat desk box, which has solved much trauma.
-
Oh yes. Not sure my cat would think it was an adequate substitute for my knees.
-
-
-
-
-
I guess you have to paws a lot 😉
-
@barny 🙄 🧥
-
-
-
Athelstone posted an update 7 years, 4 months ago
Updates losing comments:
OK, there’s a bug, probably in the BuddyPress code or in a plugin (or somewhere), that is preventing the ‘show all comments’ button from appearing (but only sometimes) after old comments have been tucked away out of sight. Very irritating. Here’s a workaround if you get this. Not pretty, not convenient, but at least you…[Read more] -
Athelstone posted an update 7 years, 4 months ago
Hoorah! At last, after an overload of dithering, I am back on the path that Julie Cohen recommends and writing sh*t.
Don’t you hate it when people put an asterisk in a word, converting a perfectly good piece of Old English into the illegitimate cousin of a euphemism? It’s as though it’s somehow more pol*te.-
Not getting at anybody in particular and I’ve done it myself many times over the years. Anyway – main point, writing!
-
Me too Ath. As of this morning. Mine is utterly shit too. 177 words of complete garbage so far. And I don’t care! I might even try to write another 100 words of tosh before lunch!
-
But CONGRATULATIONS. If I could remember how to insert an emoji, I would. So just imagine champagne bottles popping, streamers and smiley faces.
-
🙂
-
I haven’t written any shit today, because I haven’t written anything at all. I’m mulling stuff over. But one H*rry B*ngham once pointed out that he’d spent a whole week in his study mulling things over and not writing a single word, and still counted it as writing time because it produced results later. A murrain on daily targets, that’s wot I say.
-
Yes, but my mulling had moved on to how to add to my collection of noir films, or should I make myself another PC and had even reached the outskirts of ‘I wonder what’s on Channel 4’. Luckily that turned out to more Brexit so I started writing again.
The most immediate problem is that my characters are having a conversation and won’t stop bloody…[Read more]
-
-
-
And congratulations on the tosh, Jane!
-
-
and now I can only see my original update and my own first reply. No other replies and no ‘show all replies’ prompt.
-
I’m just getting your two comments, too. So I reckon the rest were so full of swearing that the Den went all puritanical on us??
-
Yep, not pointing fingers but somebody here is 100% potty-mouth!
-
-
-
-
Your bug work around worked! I managed to find all the comments. Congratulations on all your characters talking. I rewrote the first chapter of my WIP for the thousandth time this morning. It might be getting close to being THE ONE. But there again…
-
Hoorah, your kind comment has made the ‘Show all 10 comments’ button to appear, for me anyway.
-
Congrats on getting back to writing, Ath. And working round the program glitch.
-
-
-
-
Daedalus replied to the topic Interview with Fiona Erskine, author of The Chemical Detective in the forum Blogs 7 years, 4 months ago
@s-p-moss It does, doesn’t it? Quite intrigued by that
-
Squidge posted an update 7 years, 4 months ago
I am writing again… One whole chapter further on in The Black Ruby than I was at the start of this week.
About bloomin’ time! Oh – and for those who’ve read Rurik’s story (which is now about Tilda!), remember I said the publisher didn’t like ‘Mage of Merjan’ as a title cos they thought it gave the plot away too much? Am I being daft by…[Read more]
-
HUGE well dones on getting writing again! That’s fab news. 😊 Re the title, quest just makes me think of the six BAZILLION dragon quest books, so for me it’s too tied up with that. But given the age bracket, I wouldn’t have worried so much about LOTR overlap. Not much help, sorry.
-
I know – Beast Quest too… Ring Hunt sounds a bit dodgy if you say it quickly (!) but the search for the ring is central to the story, and there’s only so many ways you can describing hunting for something! Thinking cap on again…
-
Can it just be about the ring, rather than the search? The lost ring, the ring of x, a something in gold (if it’s gold!)…?
-
I can’t help with the title. I struggle with them as well, but great that you are back to writing!
-
The ring of Ambak… Perhaps.
-
Works better for me than Quest etc does. 😊
-
-
-
-
-
Thanks Raine…will see what Bink think… Mind you, not heard from them for ages.
-
-
JaneShuff replied to the topic You'll find us in the "activity" section….. in the forum
December SloMo 7 years, 4 months agoHopefully it might work for me @kazg. Especially if I don’t have to start until April.
-
-
-
-
-
-
Daedalus replied to the topic Interview with Fiona Erskine, author of The Chemical Detective in the forum Blogs 7 years, 4 months ago
I should have tagged @bric of course… Sorry
-
Squidge posted an update 7 years, 4 months ago
@athelstone – can’t find the donations thingy in forum. Thought it might be under admin, but no joy and it doesn’t seem to be listed anywhere else in there?
-
Hi Squidge, from login select Groups, then scroll down and select Donations, then select Forum 🙂 There are two topics. the first is a summary of where we are and how to donate. The second is for chat.
-
I’ve checked there too Squidge, and it’s showing as not having a forum. No topics Ath.
-
That’s odd. There aren’t any settings I can see to make the forum more visible, or even to hide it or anything really. It’s a public group, can you see the forum if you join it?
-
Yes, you have to join.
-
Ah, well that’s my inexperience with the site then. I should have added ‘join’ as a step.
-
-
-
-
-
-
Squidge replied to the topic Interview with Fiona Erskine, author of The Chemical Detective in the forum Blogs 7 years, 4 months ago
It’s a really fab interview – I so want to read this!!
-
Athelstone posted an update 7 years, 4 months ago
Den of Writers is a FREE forum. That means that nobody pays for membership and if you join you are absolutely entitled to use and enjoy the place as much as anybody – in fact, you are encouraged to.
However, people have enquired about contributing to the cost of hosting the site, so the Donations group will show you how to if you want to.…[Read more]
-
Daedalus started the topic Interview with Fiona Erskine, author of The Chemical Detective in the forum Blogs 7 years, 4 months ago
I thought Denizens might enjoy this interview with the author of The Chemical Detective, a thriller due out soon from Point Blank, an imprint of OneWorld. Those of you who were around in the Word Cloud days will of course know that author as Bric. It’s a fantastic novel – go and buy…[Read more]
-
Athelstone replied to the topic Plotting workshop notes in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 7 years, 4 months ago
Just brilliant notes.
-
Daedalus replied to the topic Plotting workshop notes in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 7 years, 4 months ago
Many, many thanks for this Kaz. Multiple lightbulb moments. As Philippa says, it can make a big difference finding a model that works for you (and indeed, different ones might apply themselves better to different works). I’m trying to structure a novella at the moment, which is obviously somewhat different to a novel, and some of the more s…[Read more]
- Load More
Skip to content
