“Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad.”
There are a few films that have always stayed with me. The 3 Musketeers and The 4 Musketeers are 2 of them. The old films. Also the original Dumas books. Lucy Percy, Countess Carlisle was supposedly Dumas’ model for Milady de Winter. In the films she is branded on the left shoulder with the fleur […]
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This may help or not help but… …I have a little character development notebook with 8 key points on each page. Wound. Misbelief. Response. Trigger. Problem. Fear. Good Points. Bad Points. Those categories run throughout and every single character is given each characteristic to make them a whole. I write quickly. After a lot of […]
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Oh. Such fun to be had :o) Ken is a Belfast Boy. Andrew is a Dublin boy. If you GET my vibe, you’ll get it. If not…!
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If there is just ONE SINGLE thing that can turn me from a Baconian to an Oxfordian it is THIS… GB 14th March 2019 : Cathars/Starfort/Oxford And Inspector Morse. And Lewis. And AW. AND KEN BRAN x I’ve said before that the authorship of the Shakespeare plays was not important to me. Who ever wrote […]
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OMGA! Ref : last post about photo shop…if you watch the video, around the 10 minute mark you get the Gabriel Báthory/Bethlen MurderMayhem story. As soon as I saw the name Battor on the image, my SpideySenses peaked. Yup. Gabriel was a member of the Ecsed Báthory family and thereby related to Báthory Erzsébet aka […]
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When you dive REALLY deeply into the Art & Craft of Story, one of the most important things that you learn about your characters is the Want vs Need arc. Wants drive the story. Needs DEFINE the story. Story is about life. Usually human life. To figure out these two things is to figure out […]
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GB 19th October 2018 : Did Mary Sidney Write Shakespeare’s Plays? Even I had no idea about What an Absolutely Tangled Web I’d Woven! I’m absolutely loving this man and his knowledge because (although he has no idea) he HAS brought so many of my lines of research together. As stated in the old post […]
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Whilst I admire Stewart as a drummer – I take issue with this video. Copeland chose to rest the drumstick of his left hand on the middle finger to play the snare drum, unlike his jazz heroes. Ahem. My Dad was a drummer. The snare drum was the sound of my childhood. As I’m feeling […]
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Well. There is more than one stalker but THIS particular one totally embodies this song. 1983. I’d escaped from “slavery” as a #Mother’sHelp and was forcibly removed from London, where I lived for a short time – removed by my Dad who just happened to be at Hendon Police College – forced to live with […]
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I adore the genre Gothic (Horror) and Daphne du Maurier’s book Rebecca is wonderfully Gothic. Searching it on whytoob – I had no idea that Jeremy Brett (Sherlock Holmes, one time husband of Anna Massey – also in the film) and Joanna David (wife of Edward Fox, aunt of Laurence Fox aka Hathaway) had done […]
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OK. I knew that this story sounded familiar! Playwright and poet William Shakespeare (1564–1616) makes frequent use of the Philomela myth—most notably in his tragedy Titus Andronicus (c. 1588–1593) where characters directly reference Tereus and Philomela in commenting on rape and mutilation of Lavinia by Aaron, Chiron, and Demetrius. Prominent allusions to Philomela also occur in the depiction of Lucrece […]
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This is a line from Shakespeare’s Henry IV. We did Henry IV Part 1 AND Part 2 as part of my English Literature Exams. I didn’t quite appreciate this at the time but now I do. Henry IV, father of Henry V – antagonist of the Dauphin of France. Who was rescued by Jehanne d’Arc. […]
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