Edward-P-Jones | Anjuelle Floyd

Planning Your Novel: My Notebook

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

I have a notebook for every novel I write. I make notes on short stories I write, but novels deserve an entire notebook.
My novels, as with all stories I write, begin in my head. Since earning my MFA I give much thought to my novels before I write, sometimes as much 3 years or more. [...]

Tags: a writer's notebook, All Aunt Hagar's Children, characters, Cody's Books, developments, Edward-P-Jones, names, novel, outline, plot, revelations, short stories, writing

Dialogue: More than Conversing

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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

“Marie Delaveaux Wilson”

Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays

Edward P. Jones’ short story, Marie, centers on eighty-six-year-old Marie Delaveaux Wilson for whom the “…federal government…every now and again, as if in a whim…” asks “…her to come in so they can take another look at her…” (p. 229)
At the Social Security office, and punctual for her eleven am appointment Marie waits until one-thirty [...]

Tags: African American, city, Edward-P-Jones, literature, short story, social, women

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