Magic and Craft

Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays, Musings

Author of literary thrillers,” Lisa Unger, was my guest on Saturday’s broadcast (September 26, 2009) of Book Talk, Creativity and Family Matters.
“Die for You,” her latest release, and the other books she has penned (8 total), were among the many things we discussed, along with working to find balance between her work as a career [...]

Tags: art, blessings, craft, Die for You, discipline, drafts, gifts, gods, Lisa Unger, magic, revision, story, transformation, writing novel

Read more | Comments (2) | September 28, 2009

Masks and Crutches

Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays, Musings

Like the crutch used by the dancers in the video, The Dance, we all wear masks. Yet unlike the dancers use of the crutch, free and willing to share, too many of us cling to the mask, hide behind it, make it the one, and only face we show the world.
Writers, like all people wear [...]

Tags: art, artistry, craft, crutches, masks, patience, skill, The Dance, writers, writing

Read more | Comments (4) | July 22, 2009

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 [...]

Tags: art, character, conflict, craft, creative writing, dialogue, dramatic tension, dramatist, fiction, memoir, playwriting, plot, point of view, screenwriting, setting, story telling, theme

Read more | Comments (0) | June 29, 2009

The Need to Keep Things the Same: Monica Ali and “In The Kitchen”

Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays, Musings

…Ali has taken the action out of the home and into the high-octane kitchen of the executive chef Gabriel Lightfoot, whose restaurant at the Imperial Hotel gives her a wider, more public space in which to continue her exploration of the modern immigrant experience.
In changing her setting, she almost manages to change [...]

Tags: art, book critics, book reviews, Brick Lane, craft, critiques, Gabriel Lightfoot, In the Kitchen, London Times, Monica Ali, Natalie Sandison, Nazneen, writing

Read more | Comments (2) | April 30, 2009