The Write and Wrong Podcast | Writing Tips, Book Publishing and Literary Agents
Aug 10, 2026 · 33 min · 16 segments
What if the government could police your dreams? Young adult author Pippa Dunn drops by to discuss her debut novel, The Sign of the Raven. Pippa pulls back the curtain on her journey from the…
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But I think that that that, you know, you have to then enjoy working through the struggle on some level or, you know, be be comfortable with sitting with the struggle on some level.
Yes.
Yeah.
I forget who it was.
Might be someone else who says, uh, uh, I don't like writing.
I like having written.
And actually when I was writing the sign of the Raven again, because I was crafting and I, I have a, have, um, I'm very fortunate to have a critique group that I meet regularly with, um, um and it really helps keep you accountable because when you know you are handing in 3 000 words of new work to be to be reviewed by your by your peers you you've got to hit the deadlines those like mini deadlines that keep you going and keep you motivated um but often in the process of writing the sign of the raven i'd love whatever chapter it was that i'd polished up and sent to my critique group and i'd feel you know i'd get back to my laptop and be like oh my god i'm never gonna write anything that good again and i actually be like paralyzed for a couple of weeks being like oh my god that that chapter is actually good i like it and now we've got to start again and actually you know these are these are the feelings you have to get used to um and you have to keep going anyway and now what's really interesting is one of my favorite chapters of the sign of the raven no spoilers but it's chapter let me see which chapter it is it is chapter Here it is.
Chapter 19 and chapter 20 of The Sign of the Raven are probably two of my favourites.
And I remember just sort of bashing it out, like rocking up to the keyboard and being like, okay, come on then.
But I think that that that, you know, you have to then enjoy working through the struggle on some level or, you know, be be comfortable with sitting with the struggle on some level.
Yes.
Yeah.
I forget who it was.
Might be someone else who says, uh, uh, I don't like writing.
I like having written.
And actually when I was writing the sign of the Raven again, because I was crafting and I, I have a, have, um, I'm very fortunate to have a critique group that I meet regularly with, um, um and it really helps keep you accountable because when you know you are handing in 3 000 words of new work to be to be reviewed by your by your peers you you've got to hit the deadlines those like mini deadlines that keep you going and keep you motivated um but often in the process of writing the sign of the raven i'd love whatever chapter it was that i'd polished up and sent to my critique group and i'd feel you know i'd get back to my laptop and be like oh my god i'm never gonna write anything that good again and i actually be like paralyzed for a couple of weeks being like oh my god that that chapter is actually good i like it and now we've got to start again and actually you know these are these are the feelings you have to get used to um and you have to keep going anyway and now what's really interesting is one of my favorite chapters of the sign of the raven no spoilers but it's chapter let me see which chapter it is it is chapter Here it is.
Chapter 19 and chapter 20 of The Sign of the Raven are probably two of my favourites.
And I remember just sort of bashing it out, like rocking up to the keyboard and being like, okay, come on then.
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