Comments on: A Budgie Called Doris – The Perils of Backstory https://www.jackieashenden.com/a-budgie-called-doris-the-perils-of-backstory/ Sun, 16 Oct 2011 19:05:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Suzanne Jones https://www.jackieashenden.com/a-budgie-called-doris-the-perils-of-backstory/#comment-4910 Sun, 16 Oct 2011 19:05:45 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=297#comment-4910 Personally I’m always tempted to put the kitchen sink in the first chapter. Bad, bad habit.

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]]> By: Catherine Coles https://www.jackieashenden.com/a-budgie-called-doris-the-perils-of-backstory/#comment-4909 Fri, 14 Oct 2011 09:17:32 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=297#comment-4909 LOL, great pot analogy. Very wise person who said that :-}

And poor Doris ;-}

]]> By: Jackie Ashenden https://www.jackieashenden.com/a-budgie-called-doris-the-perils-of-backstory/#comment-4908 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:46:37 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=297#comment-4908 Annie – hey, thanks! Now I’m tempted to go look…:-)

]]> By: Annie M https://www.jackieashenden.com/a-budgie-called-doris-the-perils-of-backstory/#comment-4907 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 09:00:34 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=297#comment-4907 Do NOT google images for Virgin’s Budgie Smuggler. (At least not with your mouth full of tea.)
Great post. It makes good sense when you put it like that!

]]> By: Jackie Ashenden https://www.jackieashenden.com/a-budgie-called-doris-the-perils-of-backstory/#comment-4906 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 06:44:31 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=297#comment-4906 Kerrin – no worries. It’s a tough one to figure out actually – I still do it with EVERY story, as in totally fail to figure either the goal or the conflict or the motivation. Sometimes it’s all three!

Joanne – hey you! Yeah, don’t you like the hero admiring himself? Sometimes closely followed by running his hands through his silky, soft coal black locks. 🙂
Lol re Virgin Budgie Smugglers! It’s got to happen eh? Maybe next New Voices…

]]> By: Joanne Dannon https://www.jackieashenden.com/a-budgie-called-doris-the-perils-of-backstory/#comment-4905 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 02:28:29 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=297#comment-4905 Great post and I do love this line – “…him looking in the mirror and reflecting on how handsome everyone tells him he is but he doesn’t think so but he kind of likes the way the light shines on the artfully messy spikes of his blue-black hair.”

LOL – I think there may be some non-romance readers who think HMB would publishe this!

Can’t wait to read “The Virgin’s Budgie Smuggler” – sounds like a winner to me 😉

]]> By: Kerrin https://www.jackieashenden.com/a-budgie-called-doris-the-perils-of-backstory/#comment-4904 Mon, 10 Oct 2011 23:26:36 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=297#comment-4904 awesome analogy! Will have to go and have a read through mine and see what i can do 🙂
And i really liked the way you described the row boat, goal, conflict and motivation thing. Awesome!

]]> By: Jackie Ashenden https://www.jackieashenden.com/a-budgie-called-doris-the-perils-of-backstory/#comment-4903 Mon, 10 Oct 2011 19:14:25 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=297#comment-4903 Scarlet – hehe. Thanks!

Caroline – yep, I know the feeling. I don’t do it either. 🙂

]]> By: Caroline https://www.jackieashenden.com/a-budgie-called-doris-the-perils-of-backstory/#comment-4902 Mon, 10 Oct 2011 12:05:50 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=297#comment-4902 Easy peeasy – so why don’t I just *do* it. Sigh….. Caroline x

]]> By: scarlet wilson https://www.jackieashenden.com/a-budgie-called-doris-the-perils-of-backstory/#comment-4901 Mon, 10 Oct 2011 08:28:56 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=297#comment-4901 Love the analogy jacie – it’s perfect!

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