Den of Writers | Tony Lyttle | Activity https://www.denofwriters.com/members/tonylyttle/activity/ Activity feed for Tony Lyttle. Mon, 25 May 2026 07:26:59 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-GB 30 hourly 2 2685cbe970ce2a3f633b98d0f09c5653 Tony Lyttle replied to the topic That old enemy, Perfectionism in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/that-old-enemy-perfectionism/#post-8406 Fri, 12 Jun 2020 14:07:13 +0000 I’m not sure you can, or should, avoid perfectionism. Yes, by all means, when you are scribbling down your first draft, avoid it certainly. But not when doing your major edit. (You said ‘revising’ so maybe you’re not editing yet.) But when you are, it’s the perfect word or phrase that you’re searching for and nothing less should satisfy.
Those…[Read more]

]]> 0 7d285fa89bbc90d121741c5397b8866c Tony Lyttle replied to the topic Mobile phones in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/mobile-phones/#post-5836 Thu, 15 Aug 2019 13:37:56 +0000 If it’s on Google it MUST be correct!!!
But it doesn’t really matter, if, within the context of what you write, it IS correct. As long as you “hang a lantern” as Harry Bingham of Jericho Writers, puts it, your readers will believe you. Go for it!

]]> 0 260e5fa2e1ec5767ecf48e6f0aefbeb0 Tony Lyttle replied to the topic Mobile phones in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/mobile-phones/#post-5833 Thu, 15 Aug 2019 09:03:51 +0000 Yes, but… Who would repeatedly ring a number that kept going to voicemail? Some might try twice but no more than that, surely.

And I suspect that perhaps the caller is no longer in a position to make repeat calls any more than the receiver is able to answer, but I’m just guessing.

I still think the simplest answer is to establish early on that…[Read more]

]]> 0 4df2cce105aecd5d81894dd47f80c298 Tony Lyttle replied to the topic Mobile phones in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/mobile-phones/#post-5829 Wed, 14 Aug 2019 11:27:41 +0000 It sounds a wonderful last line and conjures up all sorts of possible scenarios; I can understand why you want to be able to use it. I wonder whether you can, though.If, as Daed suggests, you can prove it works by testing turning off your own voicemail, fine, but I suspect phone companies have a system that will automatically disconnect a call…[Read more]

]]> 0 0a393cba0d342a116bdc0ed69cdc140e Tony Lyttle replied to the topic Making sense? in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/making-sense/#post-5665 Thu, 18 Jul 2019 12:03:55 +0000 Ah yes. The previous line makes all the difference. I think it works fine.

]]> 0 db07d1f31371c3bbcf34b30b88a3d184 Tony Lyttle replied to the topic Making sense? in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/making-sense/#post-5658 Thu, 18 Jul 2019 09:03:09 +0000 Crossed with you, Jonathan.

]]> 0 6ae8406ad4b54dafcb5c78f52dcac4df Tony Lyttle replied to the topic Making sense? in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/making-sense/#post-5657 Thu, 18 Jul 2019 09:01:33 +0000 At face value, John, to me it means the opposite. “Never regret not taking the adventurous decisions.”
The things you didn’t do? Maybe they were missed opportunities, but maybe not. Maybe they were best left alone. It’s all water under the bridge now, so there’s no point in spending time and effort on regretting what might have been.

To mean…[Read more]

]]> 0 89f9fb44eb457c55115899fa1898a222 Tony Lyttle replied to the topic Publishing deal!! in the forum Podium https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/publishing-deal-3/#post-5620 Fri, 12 Jul 2019 19:23:26 +0000 Write on, Girl! Terrific news. Well done.

]]> 0 16826afa9523bca8295ad775a6d47889 Tony Lyttle replied to the topic Help with a Title, please. in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/help-with-a-title-please/page/2/#post-5560 Wed, 03 Jul 2019 23:23:31 +0000 Thanks, again, for all the good advice and reasoning, too.

]]> 0 3a8e7106ecb80ca10b5716f41a78b34f Tony Lyttle replied to the topic Help with a Title, please. in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/help-with-a-title-please/page/2/#post-5551 Tue, 02 Jul 2019 22:16:08 +0000 Thanks again for all the advice, guys.
It’s clear I should stick with “A Lyttle Goes a Long Way”.

But the subtitle:
The Improbable Tale of an Ulster Storyteller
The Improbable Life of an Ulster Storyteller

The Remarkable Tale… or Life…
The Extraordinary Tale… or Life…

or some other type of Tale… or Life…?

]]> 0 7089c32a836639a29ad53e94d66dd4d4 Tony Lyttle replied to the topic Help with a Title, please. in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/help-with-a-title-please/#post-5526 Mon, 01 Jul 2019 12:54:39 +0000 Further thanks to Kate, Kaz and John. It seems I really ought to stick with my working title. So how about:

A LYTTLE GOES A LONG WAY
The extraordinary life of an Ulster Storyteller

Or is it better without a subtitle?

]]> 0 ae8010e0a06fa04a7283cb17bb7841e8 Tony Lyttle replied to the topic Help with a Title, please. in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/help-with-a-title-please/#post-5510 Sat, 29 Jun 2019 08:48:45 +0000 Thanks, Squidge. No, I do like the original title (You should see the length of the list of “Lyttle” puns I rejected before choosing this one! There’s already a completely unrelated book out there called “Lyttle by Lyttle”, my first thought.) I just wondered if I could grasp readers attention without using his name. Maybe I’m worrying needlessly.…[Read more]

]]> 0 102225f7cd9f5170ba9abd5750ae1676 Tony Lyttle replied to the topic Help with a Title, please. in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/help-with-a-title-please/#post-5507 Fri, 28 Jun 2019 23:10:20 +0000 OK, thanks for the feedback GG

]]> 0 40d090a35f92fe07caf14878df45b94c Tony Lyttle replied to the topic Help with a Title, please. in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/help-with-a-title-please/#post-5505 Fri, 28 Jun 2019 15:50:41 +0000 OK, so I could still go with “A Lyttle goes a long way”. I agree it’s a nice pun, although any pun could put some people off, I suppose. I was hoping to avoid using his name in the title as though it is his name, alone, that makes it worth buying the book – and if it doesn’t happen to ring a bell with you, why would you buy it?

Would this revised…[Read more]

]]> 0 4f20942b8fb1853e9dd0073caa4e786b Tony Lyttle replied to the topic Help with a Title, please. in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/help-with-a-title-please/#post-5502 Thu, 27 Jun 2019 15:20:13 +0000 Thanks Gipps. THe working title is better, eh? Perhaps you three are right. But jaw-dropping is a strong word; thanks for that.

]]> 0 72a756955b8c633a7121f3422937b390 Tony Lyttle replied to the topic Help with a Title, please. in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/help-with-a-title-please/#post-5467 Sat, 22 Jun 2019 19:58:09 +0000 Thanks, Squidge, for your insightful comments. Interesting that the working title would catch your eye without even knowing about WG Lyttle. I agree the other bit wasn’t really a strapline – more part of the blurb, as you say.

Bella, I love the idea of ‘Hold the Front Page.’ Unfortunately it would be anachronistic; back then the front page was…[Read more]

]]> 0 0d8757f52bf9fd2d3d4003845729104e Tony Lyttle started the topic Help with a Title, please. in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/help-with-a-title-please/ Fri, 21 Jun 2019 18:13:37 +0000 Hi folks, I’m afraid I’ve only been able to pop in here intermittently of late, as I’ve been very busy finishing the biography I’ve been writing of my great-grandfather – the son of a cobbler who became a newspaper proprietor, writer and renowned stage entertainer reading his witty short stories, in 19th century Ulster; I’m at the editing stage…[Read more]

]]> 0 afe544986790cbdb7d59bd27d11e14d3 Tony Lyttle posted a new activity comment https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/9005/#acomment-9017 Wed, 01 May 2019 22:45:31 +0000 Hi Athers, I’ve joined JT to see what WordCloud Mk2 looks like – and asked to be your friend 🙂 I think, while we all wished Harry well with JerryCoats, we thought it would come back to this eventually. Whether it will ever regain the self-perpetuating impetus of WordCloud we’ll just have to wait and see.

In reply to - Athelstone posted an update So, Jericho Writers has (have?) scrapped the Townhouse forum and launched Jericho Townhouse which is open to the public and free, it […] ]]> eb94ea48ba35e4fcd952d16005e08ade Tony Lyttle replied to the topic Publishing Deal in the forum Podium https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/publishing-deal/#post-4130 Thu, 31 Jan 2019 14:30:15 +0000 Terrific news, Philippa. Congratulations!

]]> 0 36a11f79344ff56c5b535242ef15405f Tony Lyttle 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-4115 Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:03:10 +0000 Very interesting to read this, Daed. I’m looking forward to the next parts. Congrats on your honesty and willingness to share. It should be very helpful for all of us.

]]> 0 2e2fffe620248a04a11336f5eaf038a3 Tony Lyttle posted an update: I've just been completing my Tax Return for 2017/18, due in […] https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/6736/ Mon, 07 Jan 2019 16:44:15 +0000 I’ve just been completing my Tax Return for 2017/18, due in online by 31 January, 2019 and found a very welcome ‘tax break’ for new authors with not too many sales.

I published my first (and only, so far) book in 2016/17. I had to declare the additional income from the sales as ‘self-employment’ income. Lots of stuff to fill in and quite a…[Read more]

]]> 1 31d3fdf9b29dda4ec8a8f6784f51351e Tony Lyttle posted a new activity comment https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/2137/#acomment-6113 Wed, 05 Dec 2018 16:11:01 +0000 I was sorry when you told of of Dick’s illness. Good to hear he is slowly recovering. Give him by best regards. You, too. Happy Christmas.

In reply to - Tony Lyttle posted an update A day for catching up with old friends, home from the States, not for writing. ]]> 028ae7daa1d234aa44b8dae4bc145b9b Tony Lyttle replied to the topic Monthly competition - Nov 2018 in the forum Monthly Competition https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/monthly-competition-nov-2018/page/2/#post-3333 Sat, 01 Dec 2018 20:41:15 +0000 Well done Raine, and thank you Daed for giving such good feedback on all the entries. Good comp.

]]> 0 e95da8cff9d28d8430e9d2c5719ca082 Tony Lyttle posted an update: I'm an Amcrastinator. I never put things off at work, only […] https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/5757/ Fri, 23 Nov 2018 13:28:52 +0000 I’m an Amcrastinator. I never put things off at work, only in relation to my hobbies.

]]> 0 9361db6718e9cc239e4ee1aa1f71eb6e Tony Lyttle replied to the topic Monthly competition - Nov 2018 in the forum Monthly Competition https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/monthly-competition-nov-2018/#post-2713 Thu, 01 Nov 2018 11:46:18 +0000 I haven’t entered a comp for a while though lack of time but this one intrigued me and my entry is short.

I suppose it’s a form of Writer’s Block – except that I can’t stop writing. Does that make sense? Probably not. Think of it as writing your way around the surface of a Klein bottle. Yes! That’s it exactly. Thank you. I know where I am now. I…[Read more]

]]> 0 46b55f36b9371cd616b7672fe43843c8 Tony Lyttle 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-2376 Wed, 17 Oct 2018 10:03:42 +0000 In the Nick of Time
Lost in Time
A Voice in Time

]]> 0 cab3b4811c8225ce99bd2fcf07c1d841 Tony Lyttle replied to the topic Den monthly competition September 2018 in the forum Competitions, Open calls and Writing Opportunities https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/den-monthly-competition-september-2018/page/3/#post-1996 Mon, 01 Oct 2018 19:50:30 +0000 Congratulations, Seagreen, on a worthy winning entry.

]]> 0 fbc71897834d75cbf7a9e80f7dcea492 Tony Lyttle replied to the topic Help with setting in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/help-with-setting/#post-1941 Sun, 30 Sep 2018 22:41:27 +0000 You could have an industrial ‘dirty old town’ with back-to-back terraced housing where the kids still play in the streets, ancient pubs, pawn shops and run down motor repair lots and a ‘new’ posh housing estate with a children’s’ playground and the area by the canal nicely landscaped, built on the site of an old factory that went out of business.…[Read more]

]]> 0 0752857336012f54d1b180be3ba9a393 Tony Lyttle replied to the topic I've gone and done it again! in the forum Podium https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/ive-gone-and-done-it-again/#post-1922 Sun, 30 Sep 2018 17:44:21 +0000 Terrific news. Well done, Janette.

]]> 0 d5d506853891b362c2e6b466b22813d6 Tony Lyttle replied to the topic FAQ: How to use the Lifeboat in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/faq-how-to-use-the-lifeboat/#post-1376 Sat, 15 Sep 2018 09:39:14 +0000 On the matter of the supposed redirect to the secure address. I opened the old address this morning as I hadn’t changed my favourites. Everything appeared as normal (except the address said not secure) until I tried to log in. It simply ignored my log in with no messages and no redirect. Fortunately I saw Daed’s reply to Hilary from last night and…[Read more]

]]> 0 4960ec339f51a450c81510953e1056b6 Tony Lyttle posted an update: @janette Love your metaphorical New Beginnings, comp entry. https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/2864/ Fri, 14 Sep 2018 16:21:22 +0000 @janette Love your metaphorical New Beginnings, comp entry.

]]> 1 b9466468b6beffb0a078c51dd5de4b0e Tony Lyttle posted a new activity comment https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/2137/#acomment-2857 Fri, 14 Sep 2018 15:05:07 +0000 Hello Bren. I’d like to be! But I’m still writing my great-grandfather’s biography which is taking much longer than I anticipated. But I’m thoroughly enjoying doing it.
I don’t know if you saw that I wrote a children’s book last year to read to all my grandchildren when we were all together for a week in the New Forest. It was an children’s…[Read more]

In reply to - Tony Lyttle posted an update A day for catching up with old friends, home from the States, not for writing. ]]> a063af3835f1aca7240eb730ce37ec35 Tony Lyttle replied to the topic Den monthly competition September 2018 in the forum Competitions, Open calls and Writing Opportunities https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/den-monthly-competition-september-2018/#post-1318 Fri, 14 Sep 2018 10:16:44 +0000 Yes, OK. I’ve DM’d you.

]]> 0 f30e1effbf4e51901618c424fcd5fa64 Tony Lyttle replied to the topic Den monthly competition September 2018 in the forum Competitions, Open calls and Writing Opportunities https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/den-monthly-competition-september-2018/#post-1306 Fri, 14 Sep 2018 09:46:13 +0000 Unfortunately, Mad Ig, the post no longer allows me to edit it 🙁

]]> 0 a7d603309a508fa03609335ed31b2d37 Tony Lyttle replied to the topic Den monthly competition September 2018 in the forum Competitions, Open calls and Writing Opportunities https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/den-monthly-competition-september-2018/#post-1303 Fri, 14 Sep 2018 09:34:19 +0000 It does carry a trigger warning.
Readers are free to decide for themselves whether they wish to be offended. That is not my intention.

]]> 0 e87dcecc03d633d64ac93b1029d0f82e Tony Lyttle replied to the topic Den monthly competition September 2018 in the forum Competitions, Open calls and Writing Opportunities https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/den-monthly-competition-september-2018/#post-1239 Thu, 13 Sep 2018 21:57:05 +0000 OK, I’ll post the first entry.

Content warning; contains graphic description of a pregnancy termination

NEW BEGINNINGS – ONE IN A MILLION [370 words + title and warning]
[Warning, some may find parts of this distressing]

I’m one in a million!

A million sperms fought to get to my egg first and my one won! I’ve been growing ever since…[Read more]

]]> 0 f8c006ec6423fbe3b909b39aaec27eaa Tony Lyttle replied to the topic Receiving an email headed 'Offer of Representation'.... in the forum Podium https://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/receiving-an-email-headed-offer-of-representation/page/2/#post-1046 Tue, 11 Sep 2018 16:19:35 +0000 This sounds wonderful news. Hearty congratulations. Write on, Kaz!

]]> 0 588cddc8f52fbe095f0b881d72a0853d Tony Lyttle and Debi Alper are now friends https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/2287/ Mon, 10 Sep 2018 22:39:36 +0000 0 139a704b562d0bae0721cbdc9af58453 Tony Lyttle replied to the topic Memories in the forum Critiques http://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/memories/#post-925 Mon, 10 Sep 2018 16:03:38 +0000 Oh – and it might be good if there was a veiled hint of what was to come, earlier on. I mean heavily veiled, so that its true meaning would only be realised after reading to the end. Just a thought.

]]> 0 c9c8e80d47fe769569bdc4863aa791a5 Tony Lyttle replied to the topic Memories in the forum Critiques http://www.denofwriters.com/forums/topic/memories/#post-923 Mon, 10 Sep 2018 15:59:55 +0000 I thought this very well written, John; nicely constructed, with the flashback. I kept wanting to read on. The only suggestion I would make is in the ending. “He was my first” is good because you immediately think she means her first time with a man, but quickly we see that’s not what she meant – which gives away the ending too soon. Much as I…[Read more]

]]> 0 99616967a0418be6be3ed740024dcd9a Tony Lyttle and Barry Walsh are now friends https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/2209/ Mon, 10 Sep 2018 14:37:33 +0000 0 c39f581acca619c3270340d4e029b064 Tony Lyttle and Whisks are now friends https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/2185/ Mon, 10 Sep 2018 13:27:21 +0000 0 9498116930eb3ebce578827616e1bb1b Tony Lyttle posted an update: A day for catching up with old friends, home from the States, […] https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/2137/ Mon, 10 Sep 2018 09:05:39 +0000 A day for catching up with old friends, home from the States, not for writing.

]]> 5 90fffdad9169622e3eea99c3265ad4ee Tony Lyttle and AlanP are now friends https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/2118/ Mon, 10 Sep 2018 04:03:42 +0000 0 07cf0724664107106945a9504948ecf2 Tony Lyttle and Jules are now friends https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/1929/ Sat, 08 Sep 2018 19:17:24 +0000 0 d8aa816b8f9953daea646cfeb820c2c4 Tony Lyttle and GippsGirl are now friends https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/1918/ Sat, 08 Sep 2018 17:13:20 +0000 0 22de95e773281079b9db94199ffe397d Tony Lyttle and Claire Waller are now friends https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/1879/ Sat, 08 Sep 2018 13:34:09 +0000 0 d1234d0e376e6f5edb2a404ff0328ab9 Tony Lyttle and Mad Iguana are now friends https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/1712/ Fri, 07 Sep 2018 22:21:23 +0000 0 d409cc023e73f4a31bc37bfcaf6bc661 Tony Lyttle and Gerry Fenge are now friends https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/1624/ Fri, 07 Sep 2018 17:28:06 +0000 0 2a6eb423f790cd51bf38b85965a40534 Tony Lyttle and Giselle are now friends https://www.denofwriters.com/activity/p/1620/ Fri, 07 Sep 2018 17:04:03 +0000 0