Making Soup
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays, Musings
Screenwriter, and Creative Writing teacher of Morningside Writers, Kendall Williams, likens crafting stories and novels to setting about to make soup.
We discussed the two processes in our a today’s special segment of Book Talk, Creativity and Family Matters, Savory Writing: Character and Plot.
Two essential ingredients to a savory and aromatic story or novel are characters that jump off the page and who entice the reader to care about them, and a suspenseful and riveting plot. Read the rest of this entry…
Tags: Book Talk, character, Creativity and Family Matters, drama, fiction writing, Kendall Williams, Morningside Writers, plot, savory writing, screenwriter, soup
Radio Show | Savory Writing: A Discussion with Kendall William
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Event, Interview, Radio Show
Screen writer Kendall Williams of Morningside Writers’ Workshops, and Anjuelle Floyd discuss how creating character and designing plot are like cooking soup.
Tags: Anjuelle Floyd, character, creative writing, Kendall Williams, plot
Inhabiting Your Character: Journeying to the Ends of the Earth
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays, Musings
Crafting a novel requires a major character with whom the author is willing to spend at least the next year. Much of the time spent with that character requires inhabiting her or his skin, living inside their situation that we have created.
As writers we expend a significant part of the energy of our imagination towards creating a living, breathing experience of the character and the problem they face, and then finding various ways to inhabit that world. Read the rest of this entry…
Tags: character, character development, conflict, faith, fiction, novel, tension, transformation, writing
The Aquarium of the Writing Group
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays, Musings
Creative writing teacher Kendall Williams sees Morningside Writers’ Group as an aquarium where participants can embrace their vulnerabilities.
Anyone who has ever tended and aquarium, particularly salt water aquariums, knows how delicate their atmosphere and the tedium required in maintaining a safe balance of salt to water along with other factors to ensure longevity of the life for its inhabitants.
Likewise, the best writing groups hold a delicate balance between attention to craft and psyche towards the effort of facilitating participants in crafting clear, but moving and poignant stories. Read the rest of this entry…
Tags: aquarium, characters writing, craft, fiction, jelly fish, Kendall Williams, Morningside Writers, psyche, seduction, spiritual, stories, vulnerability, writing groups
The Screenwriter and the Fiction Writer
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays, Musings
Screenwriters hold a wealth of knowledge that benefits the fiction writer. Screenwriter and playwright, Kendall Williams who runs Morningside Writers’ Group sees himself as a dramatist-teacher.
Along with facilitating fiction writers and memoirists to learn the basics of story telling–character, plot, point of view, dialogue, setting, and theme, Kendall also teaches workshop participants how to stage their writing.
Scenes form the building blocks for the short story, novel or memoir as they do in a movie. Read the rest of this entry…
Tags: art, character, conflict, craft, creative writing, dialogue, dramatic tension, dramatist, fiction, memoir, playwriting, plot, point of view, screenwriting, setting, story telling, theme
