Of Revelations, Developments and Hidden Aspects of Personality…
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays
Novels consist of a string of revelations.
These revelations, consistently timed and well paced comprise and provide an important part of plot.
As such they play and inherent and necessary role in character development.
Revelations lead to irrevocable moments wherein the protagonist, when faced with an immediate challenge demanding on the spot response, makes a decision and acts in a way that forces her or him forward.
Tags: aspect of personality, central character, character development, crisis, development, dilemma, domino effect, emotion, irrevocable moments, major character, novel, plot, protagonist, revelation, story, turning points
Of Spirals, Parking Garages, and Points of Entry and Identification…
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles & Essays
The road that led your protagonist away at the opening of your novel or story brings her or him home again during the final stage, but at a new level of awareness.
And since time has moved forward, while the central character has been gone, we could entitle the journey, Back to the Future and Home Again.
The central character of the story has traveled in a spiral, moving both vertically and horizontally.
They have broadened their perspective. This encompasses the circular motion of the spiral. Read the rest of this entry…
Tags: central character, climax, crisis, death, desire, emotion, entertain, entry, goal, grief, heart, horizontal, identification, journey, loss, major character, mental, novel, path, physical, protagonist, reader, rebirth, renewal, sadness, satisfy, somber, spiral, tangible, vertical, yearning
Of Spirals, Parking Garages, and Points of Entry and Identification…
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays
The road that took the protagonist away, during the final stage of the novel, brings her or him home again, but at a new level of awareness.
And since time has moved forward, while the central character has been gone, we could entitle the journey, Back to the Future and Home Again.
The central character of the story has traveled in a spiral, moving both vertically and horizontally.
They have broadened their perspective. This encompasses the circular motion of the spiral.
Tags: central character, climax, crisis, death, desire, emotion, entertain, entry, goal, grief, heart, horizontal, identification, journey, loss, major character, mental, novel, path, physical, protagonist, reader, rebirth, renewal, sadness, satisfy, somber, spiral, tangible, vertical, yearning
Fodder for Our Writing…
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Musings
I attended a Christmas brunch this past weekend. It was wonderful. These kinds of events challenge me.
With so many in attendance, over 100, the threat of emotional overwhelm looms large.
Tags: caress, Christmas, discovery, embrace, emotion, engagement, event, evolution, experience, feeling, fodder, greeting, hugs, human, human connection, human relationship, identity, interaction, journey, mortality, nascent, other, spirit, story, writers
Symbols: Talismans of Endeavors, Memory and Emotion
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays
Large amounts of exposition leave readers weary and if not carefully positioned breaks the dream spell ideally evoked at the outset of a novel. Mining your fiction enriches your protagonist’s journey for the reader. They also serve as markers serving as point of identification that allow readers to touch upon the protagonist’s struggle.
Tags: character, dream spell, emotion, endeavors, fiction, hopes and wishes, internal exprience, journey, marker, memory, novel, point of identifcation, protagonist, reader, struggle, symbol, talisman, thought
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