Film, culture, history
From Shakespearean actor Kenneth Branaugh, to a portrayal of former Prime Minister Margaret “Maggie” Thatcher, you’ll see the British flag waving down the aisle at this year’s academy Awards. Again. Yet again.
One starts to wonder if the Americans have a “sense of inferiority” when it comes to the dramatic arts. If so, from whence does this pathetic inferiority complex come? Let’s start in the month of April, 1812. Continue reading “The Empire’s New Talent”
Is there a character in fiction that you think got off too easy? Or perhaps one that had it too rough?
Or are you just sick of rejection letters, and want to reject someone else for a change?
Share your frustrations by writing your own rejection letter to a fictional character.
The winner will get credit on this blog and within the participating networking groups.
If you’re too lucky to know what a rejection letter looks like, an example had been provided. Sorry, Mr. Igor (video or file missing).
Deadline 19 March 2010 at 2 pm.
(You can enter for free. Simply add your entry, or a link to it, as a comment on this blog.)
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Edit: Winners announced.
Lubna made me laugh and I’m glad to have her posts on the blog. Laura Sherman’s was also entertaining. Any of their posts could have been a winner.
This time I’m going with Donna F. Hammett’s rejection of Scarlette. It captures the Old South, and looks authentic.
The winner of the “Write On, Networkers!” entries was Caroline Koepke’s rejection of Elmer Fudd.