Of Idiosyncracies, Formidable Personalities and Specifics
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays, Musings
Describing an experience or person as bad or terrible will not suffice in fiction writing.
Writing that the foster parents in a novel are mean or horrible does not flesh out the unique idiosyncrasies of their formidable personalities.
Let us turn to the context of the orphan in a less than ideal foster home. Read the rest of this entry…
Tags: action, Antoine Fisher, author, central character, character, context, court, default, defendant, dialogue, Finding Fish, foster care, foster children, foster mother, goal, Harry Potter, judge, memoir, orphan, personality, physical, plaintiff, plot, plot aware, problem, prose, protagonist, psychic, roots, situation, specificity, specifics, story, writing
Of Crevices, Cracks and Teflon…
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays, Musings
Symbols deepen what we, as readers, come to know and experience with a character.
But what makes us feel with and for her, or him [the protagonist]–cry with them, scream for them, die with them?
What ultimately moves and transforms us, the reader, along with the central character of a story, or novel?
Certainly obstacles and a great antagonist stoke the fires of us cheering on the protagonist.
But what brings us even closer to feeling, touching and being moved by the humanity, and vulnerability of a central character? Read the rest of this entry…
Tags: antagonist, blemishes, body, central character, cracks, crevices, cry, feeling, fiction, flaws, humanity, limitations, mind, novel, obstacles, past failures, personality, points of identifcation, protagonist, readers, scream, spirit, story, strengths, symbol, Teflon, transforms, vulnerability
Of Talismans, Symbols and Goals
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays, Musings
Every good story possesses not only a character, who through the author’s lucid and vibrant descriptions, draws us to root for her or him, but who also reflects aspect of ourselves with whom we have yet to make peace, or accept.
The protagonists of these stories also face a formidable opponent, a living, and breathing antagonist, whose complexities both in action, words and thoughts compel the central character to show both the light and the dark aspects of their personalities. Read the rest of this entry…
Tags: antagonist, central character, character, compliment, conspensate, engage, entertain, escape, identify, journey, light and dark, opponent, personality, physical senses, psychology, story, symbols, transformation
Guest Blog | Anjuelle Floyd
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays, Interview, Musings
Check out Part II of My Interview, The Inspiration to Write, Author Anjuelle Floyd, at ChickLitGurrl.
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Please note:
www.anjuellefloyd.com will be on hiatus during December 2009 for site maintenance and upgrade.
We will return Monday, January 4, 2010.
Until then visit me at anjuelle floyd–the writing life
Tags: Anjuelle Floyd, ChickLitGurrl, guest blog, Interview, the inspiration to write
Showing Up…
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays, Musings
Should the protagonist not appear, in court when summoned, the judge renders a default in favor of the opposing character, whether they be defendant or plaintiff.
The character has failed to present and/or make her or his case for a story. And so has the author.
All forward motion of plot ceases. No story exists, that is unless the narrative is one of chronicling the central character’s avoidance of what has come to bear. Read the rest of this entry…
Tags: author, central character, character, court, default, defendant, dialogue, Finding Fish, goal, physical, plaintiff, plot, problem, prose, protagonist, psychic, situation, specificity, story, writing
