the writing life…
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Musings
Mothers, Hope, and the words, “I’m sorry…”
The hardest thing about being a mother is that you never feel as though you’ve done enough. So many nights I go to bed wondering, pondering, construing, and often misconstruing, I am sure, how I might have done better at something for or with my one of my children.
It’s particularly hard when you witness your child struggling to accomplish or overcome an obstacle.
Bullies at school, teachers who seemed to have landed from a planet where all inhabitants have forgotten what it was like, or just how difficult it is to be a child.
To be sure, growing up is hard to do. Continue reading ‘Mothers, Hope, and the words, “I’m sorry…”’
Tags: apology, atone, consciousness, hope, I, mother, sorry, words
Of Agape, Climax, and Transubstantiation…
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays
With the passing of crisis come celebration, perhaps a love scene. Survival or resurrection from death provides the central character a wider scope of consciousness.
Personal concerns no longer drive the protagonist. Those of the community dominate her or his thoughts and actions instead. Agape love now influences their choices and behavior.
Personal suffering has yielded a greater respect and understanding of those aches and pains that affect, and beset the collective. From this emerges empathy guided by the wish to heal.
Tags: agape, battle, central character, climax, community, consciousness, crisis, crucifixion, death, elixir, Eucharist, healing, Holy Grail, major character, Mass, protagonist, symbol, transformation, transubstantiation
Of Romance, Truth, and Purging the Hidden Pools of Consciousness…
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays
Many things can happen during the approach towards the heart of a story, or novel, both for the protagonist, and the writer.
The blossoming flower of romance provides a mainstay in many stories that tug and keep open the hearts and minds of readers, wherein new possibilities enter for them to ponder both in the narrative line of the story, or novel, that perhaps offers a mirror into their own lives.
We come to books, and read not only to know that we are not alone, but also to solidify, validate and unconsciously prepare ourselves for the one constant in all of human living–change.
Tags: antagonist, breaking point, change, co-opt, consciousness, craft, crisis, demons, dilemma, fingers, goal, hands, hearts, human survival, life, meaning, minds, monsters, muscles, obstacles, physical existence, physical threat, protagonist, psychic, romance, setting, tendons, truth, writing
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.
Tags: aggravation, author, beginning, borderland, central characters, change, chaos, comfort zone, consciousness, courage, craft, desire, faith, frustration, Kindle, middle, Nook, novel, obstacles, protagonist, rival, shift, story, transformation, unknown, willingness, writer, writing, yearning
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