Four days late is better than not at all. As I mentioned on Friday this exercise is about music and writing. As I mentioned on Saturday, these exercises are taking longer to complete and require more work to do so. I’ve got exercise 10 finished now though.
Random organisational aside
When, or possibly if, I get my laptop back I’m going to have to update the review indices.
Review: ‘The House on Blackstone Moor’
Carole Gill
Creativia
2013
When nineteen year old Rose Baines returns home from visiting a dying aunt and finds her Mother, sister, and brother massacred by her mad, abusive ex-barrister and now dead Father, her life falls apart.
First she’s shipped off to Bedlam and then, through the intervention of a suspiciously understanding doctor, to Marsh Lunatic Asylum in Yorkshire. Through the good offices of a patroness of the asylum she gets a position as governess to two children at a house on the moors.
Not everything is as it seems; Miss Baines must defeat the ultimate evil and suffer terribly before she takes a final decision and finds love and a measure of peace.
Review:Sherlock Series 3 Episode 3
BBC 1
8.30 pm
12th January 2014
Well that was an amazing end to the series.
Do you want spoilers? I suppose I should give you a clue.
CAM is revealed to be Charles Augustus Magnusson (Lars Mikkelson), a man with more influence and information on everyone, even than Mycroft. CAM is a newspaper magnate with too much influence on the government. Mycroft warns Sherlock to back off, but that’s no going to happen and we all know it.
Sherlock solves the problem as he always does, but Mycroft has to intervene and prepares to send his brother in to exile.
Until an old enemy reappears to call him home.
BOOK BLITZ: DOUBLE HAPPINESS BY TONY BRASUNAS
It’s the first time I’ve taken part in a virtual book tour, but it’s been a pleasure. Book review to follow, on 31st January.
I’ve been thinking
Stop laughing.
No it didn’t hurt. No you can’t smell burning.
Anyway, I’ve been thinking about this creative writing book I’m working through. I’ve had a quick look through the next few sections and I can see why it’s designed to be worked through over several months. The exercises become longer as the book progresses.
30 days of Creative Writing: Day 10
Today’s exercise discusses the use of music in writing. I have to write a story in which music forces the protagonist back to a specific point in time and cause them to re-evaluate their life.
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30 days of Creative Writing: Day 9
Today’s exercise is another multi-part creature, but it’s not so long as Monday/Tuesday’s. Today alliteration in prose and poetry is the subject under study.
Review: ‘Nearest Star’ by Leon Golub and Jay M. Passachoff
2nd Edition
2014
Cambridge University Press
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30 Days of Creative Writing: Day 8
Today’s exercise is one of using taste and smell in description, and the principle of ‘show don’t tell’.
Everything Is Better With Dragons 