Opinionated (not to be taken too seriously!)
I've just set up this new category as a kind of a test, to see how it goes. A few months back I wrote some opinion pieces for a television website. Normally, I'm rather an indecisive, see both sides of the story kind of person but I quite enjoyed trying on different opinions for size. Anyway, I figure it may also come in useful at some point for creating short story characters and hopefully provide some amusement or spark some debate in the meantime.
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Comment from: marilyn [Member] 
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Should be interesting. Are you going to adopt a sort of dramatis persona?
Don't know whether you're familiar with Alan Bennett's monologues entitled Talking Heads.
There's one monologue entitled 'A Lady of Letters' and is narrated by Patricia Routledge, which is great! Come to think of it they're all good.
Sarah, you've now got me thinking about doing a monologue!
Don't know whether you're familiar with Alan Bennett's monologues entitled Talking Heads.
There's one monologue entitled 'A Lady of Letters' and is narrated by Patricia Routledge, which is great! Come to think of it they're all good.
Sarah, you've now got me thinking about doing a monologue!
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20/09/07 @ 15:28
Comment from: mater [Member] · http://www.freewebs.com/theapprenticewriter/
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A grumpy young woman? I look forward to it! :-)
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20/09/07 @ 23:50
Comment from: sarah_james [Member] · http://www.milltech-systems.co.uk
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Hi M and M!
Yes, I am familiar with Alan Bennet's fantastic monologues. We had to do a monologue as one of the assignments for my cert HE in creative writing at Birmingham Uni.
I think I'm adopting dramatis personae (hope that's the correct plural!) rather than dramatis persona, though the original TV pieces I was writing were for one female presenter.
I think Sue's Miss Hale's Diary was a great drmatis persona monologue idea. It's a pity it doesn't seem to have taken off, it could have become a collaborative writing project which, if good enough and with some editing, could even have maybe have been turned into a novel. Or maybe I'm just optimistic.
Yes, I am familiar with Alan Bennet's fantastic monologues. We had to do a monologue as one of the assignments for my cert HE in creative writing at Birmingham Uni.
I think I'm adopting dramatis personae (hope that's the correct plural!) rather than dramatis persona, though the original TV pieces I was writing were for one female presenter.
I think Sue's Miss Hale's Diary was a great drmatis persona monologue idea. It's a pity it doesn't seem to have taken off, it could have become a collaborative writing project which, if good enough and with some editing, could even have maybe have been turned into a novel. Or maybe I'm just optimistic.
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21/09/07 @ 00:21
Comment from: kay green [Member] · http://www.earlyworkspress.co.uk
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... which has given me an idea - blog categories run by fictional characters. Add to them each time some event or something you read ruffles a particular character's feathers. You could end up with three or four careers, like Barry Humphries has!
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20/10/07 @ 07:09
Comment from: sarah_james [Member] · http://www.milltech-systems.co.uk
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That sounds a great idea Kay.
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20/10/07 @ 08:16