writing
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Shakespeare’s Women
Here, I’d like to share with you a scene of a play I wrote, in verse, about Shakespeare’s female characters. It’s called The Untaming, or What she Wills. I posted a short section last season too. V-Verse This is another! As an introduction, women from different plays find themselves thrown together and their paths change Continue reading
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Back for Season 3!
Hey there, welcome back! Thanks for continuing reading and to any new readers, welcome too! So. Parachutes. Having a conversation with my brother a couple of months ago, the roots of the word came up. As they do. Parachute comes from chuter in French, which means to fall, and the prefix, para, means against or Continue reading
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26
To round off the season, (well, this is the penultimate post), I’m setting myself a challenge. I’ve imagined the first lines of 26 different stories. Each starting with a different letter. The idea is that they will become a collection of 26 short stories of varying genres but with a central premise. Canterbury Tales in Continue reading
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W-Wh
All my posts this season are “inspired by” a letter of the alphabet! – What? – What what? – I can’t understand you – Why? – You keep breaking up – Where are you? You sound like you’re in a cave – Where am I? Is that what you said? – Where. Are. You? – Continue reading
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N-Novella
All my posts this season are “inspired by” a letter of the alphabet! The following extract comes from my novella A Far, Far Better Thing. It is a trilogy in one novel following three generations of women and it plays with literary genres. A Far, Far Better Thing ebook A Far, Far Better Thing Paper Continue reading
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P-Perhaps
A Very Short Story All my posts this season are “inspired by” a letter of the alphabet! Perhaps it would be today. The eternal optimist, she woke up every morning thinking… Perhaps. It was a good way to wake up, a positive way, as if every day were a new leaf of the book that Continue reading
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X-Xylophone
A very short story. All my posts this season are “inspired by” a letter of the alphabet! I was born among the green and the brown. And sometimes, from beneath my mother’s boughs, I saw the blue. She named me Rose. I grew, little by little, as every living thing does, putting out feelers to Continue reading
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Ñ- Añoranza
Un Cuento Cortito. An English translation comes after. All my posts this season are “inspired by” a letter of the alphabet! Añoraba el mar. Añoraba la calma que le envolvía al escuchar las olas besando a las piedrecitas de la orilla. Aquí, todo era calma, hasta el punto del aburrimiento a menudo, y otras veces Continue reading
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V-Verse
All my posts this season are “inspired by” a letter of the alphabet! The following is an extract from my play The Untaming, Or What She Wills. It is a play based on Shakespeare’s female characters and what would happen if they met each other. Each character is extracted from a specific point in their Continue reading
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