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!!! This is a guest post match made in heaven. Absolutely loved it.

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I know! Isn't it amazing? A great exercise too! Thanks for popping by, Taegan!

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🙏 Thank you, Master Taegan!

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You always have the best guest writers

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In my ever so humble opinion, I agree! And I would love to feature you as well, Lara. You're amazing.

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Oh wow, that would be exciting! You’d have to give me a couple of topics to choose from though. 🥰💕🩷

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I'll be leaving for a month so I won't be around, but I'll write you right after!

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No rush! I’m teaching summer semesters, and it’s always real jampacked. Enjoy your trip wherever you are going and stay in touch.

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Good luck with that, Lara! Thank you so much. <3

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☺️ too kind Lara.

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Another fabulous idea for a writing exercise! And I love what was done with it.

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Thank you, Wendy. Much appreciated!

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Yes, so many possibilities! Thank you for reading, Wendy!

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Robinson Crusoe is a novel I really love. And I enjoyed this interesting take on the narrative. I can also recommend Foe by JM Coetzee. It is a fascinating and very much altered retelling of the Crusoe story.

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That is awesome, thanks for the recommendation, Wil!

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Thanks, Will. Much appreciated. I have to check out Foe, curious indeed!

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I’ll have to try the Coetzee

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I'd old enough to have seen Man Friday when it was released. Peter O'Toole as Crusoe and Richard Roundtree as Friday, if I remember correctly. It wasn't great, but I like both actors, and it was an interesting experiment. Definitely worth watching if you can find it.

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Hi Miguel, thanks for reading. Yes, I could not enjoy Man Friday but interesting nonetheless as you say, I wish they would have done it without the songs. I was not aware of the movie when I wrote my POV piece but afterwards, I thought, wait a minute, someone must have done this already.

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Another example of what you're suggesting is the novel "Wide Sargasso Sea," by Jean Rhys. It's a retelling of "Jane Eyre" from the point of view of "the madwoman in the attic," Rochester's wife. It was published in 1966, and is, in my opinion, a terrific novel.

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Ooooo. I very much like Jane Eyre. That could be an interesting read sometime!

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Just so you know, it really focuses on the background of Rochester's wife (Bertha in Jane Eyre, but Antoinette) in Wide Sargasso Sea), the circumstances of their marriage, and towards the end her life in England. And stylistically it's very different from Jane Eyre.

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I understand! :)

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Excellent suggestion! Yes POV rewrites there are many. Pride and Prejudice alone has inspired many works including Longbourne by Jo Baker, Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James and (who could forget) Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith.

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Hahaha I read the Zombies one!

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There you go! :)

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But I also dosed off a lot LOL. I also read the one where you choose your adventure.

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Yes, there a fair number of them now. The interesting thing about Man Friday and Wide Sargasso Sea is that they explicitly critique the world view of the works that generated them. Both are not only revising but undoing the original works, reversing their gazes.

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Yes, the world does not stand still. Thankfully!

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I so agree!

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Thank you for sharing your experience, Miguel!

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A very clever and well thought out/executed shift of perspective. What a great exercise. Bravo, Alexander. (You know I've already read this and I'm very happy to see you publish it! 😄)

Awesome work on the guest posting as always, Nadia!

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Woo hoo! Thank you for re-reading, Nathan ;D.

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Thank you, Nathan. Glad you like it and yes, happy to see it published here, too. Thanks again for the support!

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What marvellous thoughts and ideas. I’m very glad to have subscribed and look forward to hearing you on YouTube too!

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Thank you, Lucy. Very kind of you. The YouTube channel will launch soon!

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That is so exciting! :D

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I shadow-launched it, shhhhh! ;)

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I shadow-followed you ;-).

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🥷

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I do look forward to it! I'm very fond of YouTube.

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Thank you for such a wonderful comment, Lucy!

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That's alright!

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Fantastic viewpoint and narration! Loved hearing this tale from a different perspective!

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Thank you, Kimber! Much appreciated. So glad you find the POV switch interesting.

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Thank you so much for such a lovely comment!

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