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 [...]
Tags: character, character development, conflict, faith, fiction, novel, tension, transformation, writing
The Filtering Consciousness of Your Characters
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays, Musings
Fiction is not just the record of an event; it is the interpretation of the meaning of that event by someone. The biases and convictions of that filtering consciousness will express a truth the story cannot do without—and you get to manipulate that! How fun!
–Dianne Orsini, Professor of English and Creative Writing Teacher
My mentor [...]
Tags: Anne Perry, Buckingham Palace Gardens, character, character development, Charlotte and Thomas Pitt, Clive Matson, craft, Diane Orsini, fiction, filtering consciousness, Let the Crazy Child Write, point of view, protagonist, writing
Dialogue: More than Conversing
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays
Dialogue has to show not only something about the speaker that is its own revelation, but also maybe something about the speaker that he doesn’t know but the other character does know.
–Eudora Welty
Good dialogue accomplishes 4 things in fiction:
reveals and develops character
delivers backstory
drives Plot
directs pace
But there are more subtle aspects to dialogue.
Tags: action, character, character development, Claire Langley-Hawthorne, context, craft, dialogue, Douglas Unger, Edward-P-Jones, Eudora Welty, fiction, first person narration, intent, internal dialogue, Jennifer Jensen, Lost in the City, plot, situation, subtext, The Consequences of Sin, The Store
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