Den of Writers | Philippa East | Mentions https://www.denofwriters.com/members/philippaeast/activity/mentions/ Activity feed mentioning Philippa East. Sun, 03 May 2026 07:14:58 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-GB 30 hourly 2 2886fc2ec21404fe02e90fd7835a7705 Janette posted a new activity comment https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/23579/#acomment-23583 Sat, 16 Nov 2024 21:24:44 +0000 Thank you, @philippaeast for posting this. @Libby hope you agree with the sentiment.

In reply to - Janette started the topic Is a social media Christmas appeal worthwhile? in the forum Blogs Recently, @Philippa East posted a copy of her letter to the Society of Authors on facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/photo […] ]]> e594da060258c957427d7b007167ec24 Athelstone posted an update: Brilliant "webinar" by @philippaeast tonight. Really […] https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/14607/ Wed, 10 Jun 2020 19:31:07 +0000 Brilliant “webinar” by @philippaeast tonight. Really interesting insight into the her road to publication. Certainly had me thinking about what I’m doing right and what I’m doing wrong.

]]> 0 2646a189aede05b6ec3eb04c61672514 Elle replied to the topic My ride so far on the rollercoaster that is publishing in the forum Blogs https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/my-ride-so-far-on-the-rollercoaster-that-is-publishing/#post-8026 Sun, 22 Mar 2020 17:59:19 +0000 @philippaeast – thanks for being my rock and keeping me sane so many times during this ride and for all your advice and challenging me in the best of way!

@jillsted – Thank you!

]]> 0 43126a52d856cc5acd360966388a6184 Amanda Berriman (Skylark) replied to the topic Dipping my toe back in in the forum Blogs https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/dipping-my-toe-back-in/page/2/#post-7293 Mon, 27 Jan 2020 21:08:21 +0000 @philippaeast Hello Philippa!! Good to see you too. I’m not sure I’m at the elbow-grease point yet. Mostly shovelling all the words into various sorting piles while scratching my head and wondering when the novel will apppear. But it’s all good. Ideas firing off all over the place. How’s it all going at your end? So excited for you. Are you not…[Read more]

]]> 0 dcc355f37fd2ef0490b86ee48f1536e3 KazG posted a new activity comment https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/12471/#acomment-12537 Thu, 09 Jan 2020 22:43:16 +0000 So very exciting @philippaeast! I would love to be there but won’t be, obviously 🙂 Have a fantastic time and enjoy every minute of this very significant first! xx

In reply to - Philippa East posted an update Hello Everyone and HAPPY NEW YEAR!! Well, this means that it is THIS YEAR that Little White Lies comes out… Most of you already have these details, but below is a link (via […] ]]> a056d9a31406cf17f7c2dbcc3ac8a22a KazG replied to the topic Mobile phones in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/mobile-phones/#post-5832 Thu, 15 Aug 2019 05:17:12 +0000 That’s exactly the sort of detail-conundrum that gets my knickers in a twist, too! I agree with @philippaeast on this. I’m hearing a mobile that rings and rings, cuts out and then almost immediately rings and rings, cuts out, etc etc. Without knowing exactly what that signifies in your story I think it has the same level of hopeful/hopeless effort…[Read more]

]]> 0 d243516d83ed1752526ca2bbd9c8181a Raine replied to the topic Unediting in the forum Blogs https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/unediting/#post-5180 Mon, 20 May 2019 11:32:52 +0000 I’m with @philippaeast on this one. Often if I find myself fiddling back and forward with one thing, it’s because the issue with that bit is actually because of a different bit being wrong. If that makes sense.

But also, yes to @jd73, it can just be about mood & what aspects of the book are at the forefront of my mind during that edit on tha…[Read more]

]]> 0 980e03ad9730115ddef7f63d7b9af21d KazG posted a new activity comment https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/8823/#acomment-8851 Tue, 16 Apr 2019 23:34:57 +0000 thanks @janeshuff and @philippaeast! All crossing much appreciated 🙂

In reply to - KazG posted an update in the group December SloMo Hi SloMoers, how’s it going? One bit of exciting news from my own endless submission process – Danielle told me that Lisa (the Penguin editor) has confirmed she’s […] ]]> 12133180566f827b3613520bbaeff30d Elle replied to the topic Short Story Publication/Competition in the forum Podium https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/short-story-publication-competition/page/8/#post-4959 Tue, 16 Apr 2019 11:53:14 +0000 Great story @philippaeast with a very strong voice. Love it!

]]> 0 803e0ff7e80c20117baa5180086b8242 KazG replied to the topic Short Story Publication/Competition in the forum Podium https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/short-story-publication-competition/page/8/#post-4951 Mon, 15 Apr 2019 23:52:50 +0000 Oh wow, what a story @philippaeast. Suspense and pacing tight as a drum, cool and utterly unnerving. Brilliant!

]]> 0 7bd9a3326201cc2d905cab3ff761745d JaneShuff replied to the topic Short Story Publication/Competition in the forum Podium https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/short-story-publication-competition/page/8/#post-4947 Mon, 15 Apr 2019 06:56:05 +0000 Congratulations @philippaeast

]]> 0 819e14317f549df5c141c799747f2542 Athelstone 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-4892 Fri, 05 Apr 2019 18:03:05 +0000 Is that video on JW, @philippaeast? I just can’t spot it.

]]> 0 8ad71fe53b35ce282b18d199bbef8afa Bella 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-4891 Fri, 05 Apr 2019 17:14:49 +0000 Wow. Thanks @philippaeast. So glad you liked it. I found that slush pile rather depressing, especially when they asked what age group I was writing for. I’m struggling with it still, so it’s on the back burner for a while while I do something else. I will come back to it but I need some distance first.

]]> 0 7a8a6bdcbf355d8efc824e6f9c7dfd58 KazG posted a new activity comment https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/8547/#acomment-8580 Wed, 27 Mar 2019 21:01:01 +0000 Thanks @philippaeast. There will be poms poms aplenty, wherever you’re writing!

In reply to - KazG posted an update in the group December SloMo OK I’m doing it! IT being Camp NaNo for April. I have to rewrite the book I did for NaNo anyway, as I’m now condensing what I thought were two more books into one – […] ]]> 1a872754dcdd7f09f521fc3de96a90e3 KazG posted a new activity comment https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/8396/#acomment-8428 Wed, 20 Mar 2019 05:27:48 +0000 Henceforth, this is the official Den motto:

‘It’s never about publishing / publishers. You are a writer. You are an artist. Fuck everyone else. You know you’re calling. Do it because it’s play, it’s creating, because it brings you joy.

Just do it.’

Thanks to @philippaeast 🙂

In reply to - Raine posted an update in the group December SloMo Morning slomoers. I need a KICK goddammit. Please someone put a knife to my throat or something. I am translating agent/publisher silence into a complete inability […] ]]> 981802c97817bab83b3579653543e1f4 KazG posted a new activity comment https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/8325/#acomment-8426 Wed, 20 Mar 2019 05:20:36 +0000 Thank you @philippaeast and @elle. Still nothing…:-(

In reply to - KazG posted an update in the group December SloMo and thanks @elle! Still NO NEWS and I can’t bear it…:-( ]]> a8ce24a5bc95802eba40413c985fe923 Libby posted a new activity comment https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/8344/#acomment-8354 Thu, 14 Mar 2019 12:16:22 +0000 So sorry you’re feeling down @philippaeast . I know you know it will be worth it in the end but the road there is hard. Am sending moral support.

In reply to - Philippa East posted an update in the group December SloMo Hi guys, Hope you’re all getting on well. I have been mostly crying in a corner since getting a further round of edits from the publisher / editor. 😭 I […] ]]> 35be067a06f42bac64e3af856a7ccab4 KazG posted a new activity comment https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/8344/#acomment-8350 Wed, 13 Mar 2019 22:14:41 +0000 oh @philippaeast how bloody EXHAUSTING. I’m sending a lovely batch of re-fuelling scones, some good Ceylon tea (do you like Orange Pekoe?), chocolate and some gin. you can combine as you see fit. But you have definitely got this and this book is going to be polished to a painfully high sheen at the end of all this. It. Will. Be. Worth. It! xxx

In reply to - Philippa East posted an update in the group December SloMo Hi guys, Hope you’re all getting on well. I have been mostly crying in a corner since getting a further round of edits from the publisher / editor. 😭 I […] ]]> 27005356a297a4c84b0ff99fe2e05563 Elle posted an update in the group December SloMo: Thanks @philippaeast about the activity thread post! @kazg - […] https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/8266/ Mon, 11 Mar 2019 18:09:49 +0000 Thanks @philippaeast about the activity thread post! @kazg – sounds like you are on a real rollercoaster, just hang on and fingers crossed about that new editor.

]]> 0 b9df59cd85688103022043dcc64bfa49 KazG replied to the topic Plotting workshop notes in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/plotting-workshop-notes/#post-4611 Sat, 09 Mar 2019 03:32:37 +0000 you’re all very welcome and I’m glad if they’re useful 🙂 But I forgot to put index cards in! I’ve just added that now, point 2 after Donald Maas.

Yes, that’s right @philippaeast – it’s very liberating to put all these approaches on the table and see that they all ‘work’ even though they’re different. It’s all there for the taking and what works…[Read more]

]]> 0 88491467a882d554a9b3234b346a7378 KazG posted a new activity comment https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/8023/#acomment-8073 Wed, 27 Feb 2019 23:18:35 +0000 Thanks @philippaeast. Yes, we’ve only submitted to PRH so far. The silence is killing me!

In reply to - KazG posted an update in the group December SloMo Good for you @philippaeast. You more than deserve that break! What a rollercoaster in a whirlwind you’ve been riding, but also, what an awesome result. Do you have […] ]]> c457b0c5552db6c3a8e531e555f04a6b KazG posted an update in the group December SloMo: Good for you @philippaeast. You more than deserve that break! […] https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/8023/ Tue, 26 Feb 2019 10:46:55 +0000 Good for you @philippaeast. You more than deserve that break! What a rollercoaster in a whirlwind you’ve been riding, but also, what an awesome result. Do you have an outline for book 2?

My update is that backat the end of last year I thought that Penguin Random House had gone too quiet and all was lost (my agent was getting ready to go out on…[Read more]

]]> 12 b311c194b5a193e819a4ba2a7328687c JaneShuff posted a new activity comment https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/7896/#acomment-7913 Sat, 23 Feb 2019 08:00:59 +0000 Go for it, @philippaeast.

In reply to - Philippa East posted an update in the group December SloMo I am planning to start working in earnest on Book 2 from March onwards, after giving myself a break from writing / editing for all of February. I hope […] ]]> bd250ff6e077ef7065d648e4eb568e97 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-4293 Fri, 08 Feb 2019 16:17:55 +0000 Thanks @philippaeast – you’re most welcome. I feel very silly having made all these avoidable errors, but I wouldn’t want anyone else to fall into the same trap. Mostly I don’t want people to get stuck with publishers who act in bad faith.

Would you mind retweeting the link the next time you’re on Twitter? Just to get the highest circulation…[Read more]

]]> 0 54480197784f244a8bf69fb8f86021d5 Alan Rain replied to the topic Entering the Citadel in the forum Blogs https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/entering-the-citadel/#post-4198 Fri, 01 Feb 2019 23:48:38 +0000 @Philippaeast This is brilliant. I’ve only just caught up with the news. I’ve really been in a self-imposed bubble for the last 3 months.
I’ve read the last few paras of you blog, and can now understand what a strain you’ve been through. But you’ve come through it with honours. So interested to keep following your journey.
Again, congrats and…[Read more]

]]> 0 d5c4060b775f8d6a1c029ca297232a54 Raine replied to the topic Entering the Citadel in the forum Blogs https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/entering-the-citadel/#post-4175 Fri, 01 Feb 2019 13:15:30 +0000 @philippaeast this is brilliant. You are fab, and you deserve all this success. And like Daeds says, it is so valuable to see the non-glossy version of people’s experiences, although I know it takes bravery to tell it. There are too many stories from authors who knew someone who knew an agent and tada! they were taken on, so it is heartening to…[Read more]

]]> 0 18ed461ea818bfb216b501cbfca8652c Bella replied to the topic Getting An Agent Blog in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/getting-an-agent-blog/#post-4126 Thu, 31 Jan 2019 12:46:43 +0000 @philippaeast

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!

]]> 0 4e5864409e65a34ae55a158e26ea237f Raine posted a new activity comment https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/7041/#acomment-7199 Fri, 25 Jan 2019 11:32:57 +0000 Oh, such a shame you aren’t going to make it @philippaeast, I always look forward to reading your stories. But understandable, given the Monster Edit of Doom. 😀

In reply to - Raine posted an update in the group December SloMo January update from Fife – Last week I thought that a) I’d never ever in the universe get to the end of the huge wip edits, b) not hit the word count target. And […] ]]> 063f6f7d2b76e50c94071149a995924f Raine posted a new activity comment https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/7041/#acomment-7198 Fri, 25 Jan 2019 11:30:51 +0000 Thank-you @philippaeast. It was a good feeling writing that new word count into my cover letter! I did it partly by stripping out a character, which meant a bit of structural shenanigans but did streamline bits of the plot. I also cut out a minor PoV. But a lot came from just line edits, which is quite scary re how much there was that I could cut.…[Read more]

In reply to - Raine posted an update in the group December SloMo January update from Fife – Last week I thought that a) I’d never ever in the universe get to the end of the huge wip edits, b) not hit the word count target. And […] ]]> a193e7c4e714295577262a4b4dbb37f6 JaneShuff posted a new activity comment https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/7013/#acomment-7196 Fri, 25 Jan 2019 11:11:48 +0000 I don’t think you have any reason to panic, @daedalus. They will be wonderful.

Thanks @raine and @philippaeast. Encouragement and hugs and tea are exactly what I need!

In reply to - Philippa East posted an update in the group December SloMo Hey guys, how are you all doing? I am crawling very close to the finish line with this latest round of edits. I don’t honestly know how I’ve done it! Sheer […] ]]> c7cb48b014bcc10caf5e53e7ebdd7392 Daedalus posted a new activity comment https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/7013/#acomment-7194 Fri, 25 Jan 2019 10:29:21 +0000 Thanks @philippaeast and @raine …um, yes, the novellas. I don’t really want to talk about them too much until I’ve written them. I haven’t even started yet and am a bit panicked about it. Will add more when I’m a bit more comfortable with how things are going.

In reply to - Philippa East posted an update in the group December SloMo Hey guys, how are you all doing? I am crawling very close to the finish line with this latest round of edits. I don’t honestly know how I’ve done it! Sheer […] ]]> 265b2dfdc6360dc36a2cc161e155a92c Raine posted a new activity comment https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/7013/#acomment-7040 Mon, 21 Jan 2019 12:35:55 +0000 Yay @philippaeast for reaching the end – that really has been an epic act of bravery, so well done. And I’ll keep fingers crossed Sarah’s verdict is ‘Yes! Out on sub now!’ 🙂
@daedalus three novellas!?!? THat’s fantastic news, you kept that quiet, you sly thing you! So pleased for you, hope that gives you a huge, well earned boost.
And @janeshuf…[Read more]

In reply to - Philippa East posted an update in the group December SloMo Hey guys, how are you all doing? I am crawling very close to the finish line with this latest round of edits. I don’t honestly know how I’ve done it! Sheer […] ]]> ab267635440668f14116341d9e117c9b JaneShuff posted a new activity comment https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/7013/#acomment-7025 Mon, 21 Jan 2019 08:41:31 +0000 Congratulations to all three of you. Lovely to hear what everybody’s up to. Excellent work @philippaeast and @kazg! Histfic novellas @daedalus – tell more! I’ve been bumbling around in the dark. Trying to find my next novel, working on short stories and feeling fairly down – the result of going into 2018 with such high hopes and having them all…[Read more]

In reply to - Philippa East posted an update in the group December SloMo Hey guys, how are you all doing? I am crawling very close to the finish line with this latest round of edits. I don’t honestly know how I’ve done it! Sheer […] ]]> 6702766282b9c8a0828f36475200f149 Elle replied to the topic Short Story Publication/Competition in the forum Podium https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/short-story-publication-competition/page/6/#post-3583 Fri, 28 Dec 2018 15:43:47 +0000 Thanks @philippaeast!

]]> 0 67c67a51eb5ccd56aea1c70023786c68 Raine replied to the topic Getting An Agent Blog in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/getting-an-agent-blog/#post-3532 Fri, 21 Dec 2018 13:08:59 +0000 Yeah, do post an update when you have time, @philippaeast! I’d love to hear how it’s worked doing such big edits with your agent as editor. I didn’t really get much of that with mine, so would be interested to hear how it’s been.

]]> 0 b264754e23aa7e1466e7ff29c9417a71 KazG posted a new activity comment https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/6365/#acomment-6409 Tue, 18 Dec 2018 21:53:27 +0000 Thanks @philippaeast! God knows I’ll need it 🙂

Yes, momentum has an energy it itself I find @libby. Even just a little helps.

In reply to - KazG posted an update in the group December SloMo Still SloMoing along and hitting my very modest targets. Chip, chip, chip. Over 10,000 words now and it’s been pretty easy going, really, esp after NaNo. I […] ]]> 460517824460b33040f41e79384220c4 JaneShuff posted a new activity comment https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/6258/#acomment-6332 Fri, 14 Dec 2018 15:43:35 +0000 I’m going purely down the Indie Route @philippaeast. I’m staying with my agent but she’s happy for me to try and sell this to an Indie myself as suggested by Raine and Debi. Speculative fiction is apparently a bit of a hard sell…

In reply to - JaneShuff posted an update Has anybody ever had to write a long synopsis – 3 to 10 pages? If so, any tips? ]]> f218b0f8dbd37a4c52d01bbd5046439f Raine posted a new activity comment https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/6171/#acomment-6211 Tue, 11 Dec 2018 12:36:01 +0000 Oh yuck to backstories! Hope you are feeling less yucky about it today @philippaeast. I don’t know. I don’t think we need to know everything about a secondary character’s past, as long as their character and story are ‘real’ to us. Apart from bits of their past that are relevant, obv. I figure I don’t know everything about a friend’s past, but I…[Read more]

In reply to - Philippa East posted an update in the group December SloMo Ug. Today I feel like I’ve gone backwards in my editing process. I’ve put in my three hours, but most of that was spent unearthing problems in my “ba […] ]]> 1f51592d1fa6eade705bc71211d3cba3 Daedalus posted a new activity comment https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/6117/#acomment-6136 Fri, 07 Dec 2018 00:11:48 +0000 Thanks @philippaeast, I hope so. The other day I really wanted to just drop everything and start reading through my WIsortofP so that’s probably a good sign. I feel I should just read it through without making any notes, let alone editing, to try and read it as much like a reader might, and get a feel for what I might cut without overthinking it.…[Read more]

In reply to - Daedalus posted an update in the group December SloMo My SloMo has virtually been NoMo so far. Interrupted sleep patterns and disruption from house repairs, not to mention preparations for puppy, have just left me […] ]]> 344a9a0e9d560d9d86518e20dc39cd97 Raine posted an update in the group December SloMo: Goal of 1k words today have mutated into a goal of just […] https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/6003/ Mon, 03 Dec 2018 11:27:12 +0000 Goal of 1k words today have mutated into a goal of just getting through the day in one piece. And possibly printing out an MS. I’ve been told I need to trim it back by 10-15k. Which is a little daunting, and like @philippaeast with her more esoteric edits, I need to make sure I am doing this in short enough bursts that I am genuinely paying…[Read more]

]]> 2 5cf6582123f8d566c9b5880050580dd8 Daedalus posted a new activity comment https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/5979/#acomment-5985 Sun, 02 Dec 2018 20:18:29 +0000 Thanks @philippaeast – I don’t think I will set a target for the amount to edit, as I’ve no idea what’s realistic. I’ll just try to do some every day. Like yours, my editing will be pretty structural, looking at character arcs, in their own right and in relation to others. As well as seeing if it’s possible to lose about 50,000 words.

In reply to - Daedalus posted an update in the group December SloMo True to form I am late to the party with this. I had a very good start to NaNo and a terrible end – but the good start enabled me to finish the first draft of a […] ]]> 57f7ef0b3fb86aa8cf792cfe0095304e Daedalus replied to the topic Twitter thread on literary agents in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/twitter-thread-on-literary-agents/#post-3207 Sat, 24 Nov 2018 00:08:48 +0000 Thanks @philippaeast, there’s some good stuff in there isn’t there? Considering printing out a copy for when I start to query (a while away yet)

]]> 0 11c9c1e7a56f6f2209f2933084e7f3fe Alan Rain replied to the topic CB Creative in the forum Podium https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/cb-creative/#post-2883 Wed, 07 Nov 2018 22:40:10 +0000 Thanks @elle and @philippaeast
I sent it off within two hours. I just had to tailor the letter a little. Interestingly, I’d already sent it to CB, but that didn’t seem to make any difference (I did ask).
I think this has sparked me into starting my 2nd novel. This one will be easy to categorise. I’m going for supernatural horror, with a rather…[Read more]

]]> 0 e179f51e0e6b847067c72d9de7d8b323 Alan Rain replied to the topic CB Creative in the forum Podium https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/cb-creative/#post-2765 Sat, 03 Nov 2018 18:31:39 +0000 Thanks @philippaeast @Daedalus @kazg @anna @hilary

I’m inclined to go for the finish and edit as by the time the course starts in January, I (should?) have made a start on another novel. I think not the pitching course, as I feel atm I’ve had my fill of cover letters and synopses.
Has anyone done these courses?

]]> 0 7208d6bd37ee61402a54e5a7a83d48d8 KazG 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/page/2/#post-2687 Wed, 31 Oct 2018 08:49:00 +0000 What a lot of clever things have been said on this thread! I have read through them all now and it’s all fascinating.

I love Dara Marks, @raine, and your summary is brilliant. I’m getting ready to do NaNoWriMo with book two now and I’m holding these ideas in my head (as opposed to an actual firm plan, which truly is beyond me at first draft…[Read more]

]]> 0 2396c73fc88e09801ca4361ad89a1c96 Raine 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/page/2/#post-2634 Mon, 29 Oct 2018 09:56:13 +0000 I think I do a bit of both tbh. I do plot out the character arcs at the start, but things change as I write (as they do, the wee buggers), so by the end I need to do it all again for my major edit. That’s when Julie Cohen’s post-it notes come into play! I’m basically a walking advert for Julie and Craig.

@daedalus re the tragic/heroic thing – it…[Read more]

]]> 0 a1e9c88dc170aab5fd844ef0abcb249f Alan Rain 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-2585 Thu, 25 Oct 2018 19:27:26 +0000 Thanks for this @raine and @philippaeast.
I think there needs to be distinction in the character’s behaviours and internalisations during these phases.

]]> 0 3651d220f3e50c7ee5ad4782d311ac8c Raine 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-2580 Thu, 25 Oct 2018 13:45:36 +0000 @katemachon glad it makes some sense & hope it’s helpful! 🙂

@philippaeast that’s so interesting. The thing that’s always drawn me to this model is how it really explores the psychology of the character and how that drives their interactions with the external world. BUt I’d never made the comparison between that and things like the stages of…[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 b5d2ffca18392655e61737a78bce311b KazG started 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/ Wed, 17 Oct 2018 01:45:54 +0000 Yes, I’m blatantly copying @philippaeast with her Titles thread.

I must be a bit slow because I’ve also had the same feedback from my agent Danielle (that the story needs a new title) – and yet I didn’t think of asking you brilliant lot for help. So thanks @philippaeast for the inspo 🙂

Some of you have read ‘Snatched’ (thank you beloved…[Read more]

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