Of Cause and Effect, Twin Universes, and Sacrifice…
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays
The protagonist’s decision to act constitutes a cornerstone moment in the life a novel.
It signifies the shift from the beginning or set-up of the novel to the middle characterized as a process of action and reaction, better known as cause-and-effect. Still others term this area of the novel, and quite aptly, causality-and-build.
Cause-and-effect emphasizes the action and reaction quality representative of midsection of novels, the heart and lungs of the story.
Causality-and-build by its very words points to the uphill movement of the story towards crisis and climax that involves story and character arc.
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Of Borderlands, Willingness and Shifts in Consciousness…
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays, Musings
Leaving the world as it is, and entering the border between the world as it was, and presently exists in the newly leveraged chaos of change requires courage and faith. It also asks for willingness to acknowledge that one has entered the unknown.
Like our protagonists, each time we venture to write a new story or novel we exit the comfort zone of what we have accomplished, and depart once more into that land of yearning and desire.
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Of Cruise Ships, Planes, Ocean and Sky…
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays, Musings
Traveling by ship, or cruising, starts with the point or process of embarkation, going onto the ship and finding our room. Your bags arrive soon after that. And within an hour or so the ship sets sail.
Unlike with an airplane, where matters move at a faster pac
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Setting the Stage
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays, Musings
What is your protagonist doing, and or saying when the curtain lifts on the set of that first page of your story, or novel?
Their actions and dialogue relay not only much about who they are while interacting in the world with others, but also their identity within the universe of their own personalities.
They also where [...]
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