the writing life…
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Musings
Injurious Actions, Political Dictators, and Near Sadist Employers…
The recipients of our injurious words and actions most often constitute the group of people closest to us, daughters, sons, mothers, wives, husbands, fathers, co-workers, professional partners and colleagues, classmates, students, employees, those subordinate, lateral and even sometimes superior in professional rank to us.
Why do we do it? Continue reading ‘Injurious Actions, Political Dictators, and Near Sadist Employers…’
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Of Crises, Experience and Goals…
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays
Surviving a crisis bestows special knowledge garnered and held by few.
It also grants admittance into various orders of wisdom yielded by experience.
Every novel or story a writer crafts tells the life of a certain crisis, and chronicles a central character’s survival of that crisis. The process of writing that novel flows out of an upheaval, the completion of which involves many obstacles that reach a crescendo of conflict and tension.
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Of Clarity and Understanding, Guide and Map, Epiphany and Plot…
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays
Reaching that point where the protagonist has made the change, we, as writers feel differently.
We see the world of our novel from another level.
Ideally we come to hold those dimensions of personality regarding our central character(s) come in greater clarity and understanding.
And yet this is also a place where we can get to know ourselves better as individuals, not simply as persons who write.
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Of Dilemmas, Alice in Wonderland, and Shifts in Consciousness…
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays
There comes a time in every story or novel when the main character stands in the midst of her or his dilemma like Alice does in Wonderland.
The protagonist ponders, How do present circumstances differ from my immediate past?
This place, like that of Alice in her wondrous, and yet frightening Wonderland sits between the time of order in the life of the main character, then shaken by chaos and the present time of having begun the journey towards adapting to the change required by the moment of upheaval and the need to survive.
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