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Category: Series Reviews

The Watch tv series
Series Reviews, Writing Journal Posted on12th October 202012th October 2020

Bad Adaptations: The Watch

What were they thinking? The trailer for the BBC America’s adaptation of The Watch – based on sir Terry Pratchett’s City Watch Discworld books – […] Read More

What Writers can Learn from Umbrella Academy
How to Write, Series Reviews Posted on8th March 20198th March 2019

What Writers Can Learn from the Umbrella Academy

Each of the characters in Umbrella Academy is lonely in some way. Each of them fights an internal conflict. The reasons for their isolation and the reasons for their internal conflict are linked to the various mysteries in the series.

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How to Write, Series Reviews, Writing Analysis Posted on28th February 20187th March 2018

Altered Carbon, or How Not to Start Your Story

How Not to Start Your Story Lessons from the Pilot Episode of Altered Carbon I went into Netflix‘s cyberpunk extravaganza, Altered Carbon, as blind as […] Read More

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Gods and Mythology
Aeneas and the Cumaean Sibyl (1646), by François Perrier
Deus Ex Machina
Oedipus at Colonus (1788), by Jean-Antione-Theodore Giroust
Now is the time to read
Antique Beauty by Stepan Bakalovich
Stuck at Home
After the Dance (1876), by John William Waterhouse
By Johannes Vermeer - Unknown, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=160013
By Johannes Vermeer – Unknown, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=160013
Valentine's Day
Pygmalion by Jean-Léon Gérôme [Public domain]
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Concert of Birds, by Frans Snyders (Attr.) (1629-1657) [Public Domain]
Wanderer above the sea of fog, by Caspar David Friedrich
Wanderer above the sea of fog, by Caspar David Friedrich [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
Books
Still life with a lighted candle (1627) by Pieter Claesz
Time to Learn
Forbidden Books, By Alexander Mark Rossi (1897).
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The Lies of Locke Lamora Cover
The Lady of Shalott, by John William Waterhouse (1888)
The Lady of Shalott, by John William Waterhouse (1888)
heraldry
With Copper Plate Lowered (c. 1651), attributed to Bartholomeus van Bassen
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Starting something new
By J. M. W. Turner – The Athenaeum (http://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/detail.php?ID=20906), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1511781
How to use Latin
A Priestess of Bacchus, by John William Godward (1890)
The Zaparozhye Cossacks Writing a Mocking Letter to the Turkish Sultan *oil on canvas *358 × 203 cm *signed b.c.: И.Репин 1880-91
The Zaparozhye Cossacks Writing a Mocking Letter to the Turkish Sultan *oil on canvas *358 × 203 cm *signed b.c.: И.Репин 1880-91
Red Seas Under Red Skies Review
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Using Latin
Saint Cecilia (1895), by John William Waterhouse
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Nymphs finding the head of Orpheus, John William Waterhouse (1900) [Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain]
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http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436105
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By Marie Alexandre Valentin Sellier (19/20th century) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
The Sorceress (1913), by John William Waterhouse Jr
The Sorceress (1913), by John William Waterhouse Jr
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Books
The Librarian (c. 1570) by Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Learning at Home
Drawing lesson *oil on panel *69 x 60,3 cm *signed b.l.: A. Van Strij
Romeo and Juliet by Frank Dicksee (1884)
Romeo and Juliet by Frank Dicksee (1884) from WikiMedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DickseeRomeoandJuliet.jpg
Patreon Launch
The Muses, Urania and Calliope, by Simon Vouet [Public Domain]
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Starry Night, by Vincent Van Gogh [4512243112421514243341335331453324512253321125231545311314453234124245422]
Unusual Latin terms in English Writing
The Tease (1901) by John William Godward
Rewriting and asking for help
Consulting the Oracle (1884) by John William Waterhouse
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Man Writing a Letter by Gabriël Metsu [Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain]
Novel
Orpheus and Eurydice (1862) by Edward Poynter
Ambush by Giovanni Battista Quadrone
By Giovanni Battista Quadrone – Il Giro del Mondo, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=45676144
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The Ambassadors, by Hans Holbein the Younger (1533)
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Brief, by Adolf Eberle [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Reaching New Worlds
Miranda – The Tempest, by John William Waterhouse
after Hans Holbein the Younger, oil on panel, late 16th century (1533-1534)
after Hans Holbein the Younger, oil on panel, late 16th century (1533-1534)

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