Of Idiosyncracies, Formidable Personalities and Specifics
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays, Musings
Describing an experience or person as bad or terrible will not suffice in fiction writing.
Writing that the foster parents in a novel are mean or horrible does not flesh out the unique idiosyncrasies of their formidable personalities.
Let us turn to the context of the orphan in a less than ideal foster home.
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The Journey and Its Calling…
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays, Musings
Each story or novel presents the main character with not only an upset in daily activities, but also a quest.
That quest presents itself not unlike a summons to court.
The protagonist, in arriving at court, must plead her or his case. And yet the judge, the bailiff, the jurors, even the attorneys for both the plaintiff [...]
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So You Want to Write a Novel: Situation and Story
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays, Musings
If you want to write a novel then you must begin to think of the situation, and the story.
Situation is context, the nature of events that brought about the story. Story is sequence of events regarding the preceding change.
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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.
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