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2010 Challenges
1) Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte(Done!)
2) Villette by Charlotte Bronte
3) The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte (Done!)
4) Becoming Jane Eyre by Sheila Kohler
5) Movie: Jane Eyre (1997)(Done!)
6) Movie: Rebecca (1940)(Done!)
1) Why did they ask Evans?Agatha Christie(Done!)
2) Fever in the Bone Val McDermid
3) A Stitch in Crime Betty Hechtman (Done!)
4) Southern Storm Terri Blackstock
5) The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde
6) Pretty is As Pretty Dies Elizabeth Spann Craig (Done!)
7) One Last Breath Stephen Booth (Done!)
8) The Grave Tattoo Val McDermid
9) The Killings At Badger's Drift Caroline Graham(Done!)
10) This Body of Death Elizabeth George
11) Careless in Red Elizabeth George
12) Black Dogs Ian McEwan
1) Fever in the Bone Val McDermid
2) Howard's End EM Forster (Done!)
1) Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte(Done!)
4) Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (Done!)
Blog Awards
Monday, 14 January 2008
Writing
is putting words on the paper
until the
voices
in your
head shut up
.
Frank
Fradella
Friday, 4 January 2008
Keep it Simple Stupid!
Some great ways to pump-up your sentences.
C - Cut clichés
L - Leave out the adjectives and adverbs
E - Evoke the senses
A - Active voice not passive
R - Reveal don't report
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