Mary Shelley began Frankenstein at eighteen - a novel about a man who couldn't let the dead stay dead. Her husband Percy drowned six years into their marriage, off the Italian coast. His friends burned the body on the beach, but his heart wouldn't take the flame. Physicians theorize it had calcified from tuberculosis. Turned to stone. There was a fight over it. Another poet claimed it, insisted his love outranked a widow's. Mary got it back. She...

Today is the last day to try and guess what three novels make up my Frankenplot. You can email me at SoulFire77@protonmail.com with your answers.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m002q9qq/confessions-of-a-killer https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002q9sg/confessions-of-a-killer-series-1-2-judgement-day Why would a killer admit to being a killer? Confessions of a Killer are as old as Adam and Eve, Cain and Able. Printed fiction and stage-plays such as Jekyll and Hyde , fed into a penny-dreadful need to know more. To feel more. To become involved in what happens next. True-crime...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002pvjy/lollipop Wikipedia Lollipop is a film with a simple enough plot. Molly Brown (Posy Sterling) is a recently paroled mother. She wants to get her kids back before she does anything else, which is heart-warming. A familiar fix for the 60%-70% of the 3500 women imprisoned in England and having children under 12, mostly serving sentences of less than 12 months. Unless you’ve got money, are comfortably...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kindness_of_Strangers_(film) Sometimes we don’t know what to write. I thought this film would be shite, but it was really good, sums it up. Nobody really cares. The Kindness of Strangers others that. It’s the basis of most religions. We are what we give. Not in the hope of receiving, or as a morality play (although that may be part of that thing we call being truly human) or even the anguished cry of Marlon...

Who wants to play " Frankenplot "? This is an excellent game to play with your well-read friends (if you have any). It's also a great way to stumble across new and interesting plot combinations for your own work. Here's how to play: I have mixed up the plots of THREE novels by world famous authors. All you have to do is GUESS which three novels I have used to create this new "Frankenplot". I have tried to make this first one a humorous...

Elvis v Priscilla. https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002nzws/elvis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_(2022_film) https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002b8kn/priscilla https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priscilla_(film) Music and me, we don’t talk or do that walk. If the slim-hipped whip of a boy is someone the old dears in The Mountblow watch doing Karaoke turns out to be a bulky and grey haired John Brady, they never let on. I guess mums...

Dr Tony Redmond (2021) Frontline. Saving Lives in War, Disaster and Disease Bertolt Brecht, Life of Galileo (1939) Andrea: “Unhappy the land that has no heroes.” Galileo: “No. Unhappy the land that needs heroes.” Dr Tony Redmond is no fictional hero. But we kind of already know him. Born into poverty. A man that wants to help others—no matter what or where they are. He’s paid the price. Almost a millimetre from total paralysis, the discs in his...

The mind is like a vast ocean with trials and tribulation taking it all, in a state of contiuous flux. To steady it is an hercuelian task but not impossible. In all my short stories ,i write about the mind and its ramificatios .positivily affecting us ,with a peck into its negativity also. Read all my stories, experience it and send a critical assessment, from which i wish to learn more and apply.

Crowe returns this week. Its been a busy two week run, genrating interest and positioning THE PAYOUT GAME's visbilty for its release next Saturday 01,24.26. The ARC feedback is very positive, before Christmas I made a few adjustments and rewrote several scenes to reduce the occasional 'clunkiness' that slips through. Then you walk away from it. Here are my key takeaways form promotiong your own work 1. Consistency is key - same blurb, same...