Of Perseverance, Remaining Open, and Characters that Embody Our Change…
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays
Perseverance in completing that first draft it the first act of embarking on the journey of evolution we undergo each time we craft a story.
Thus we focus our energies and concentration on towards typing each word so that we might complete each sentence, craft every paragraph, shape each scene.
At this time, we, the writer must not fall under the spell of judgment and self-criticism of what we write.
Our goal is to remain open to the words coming through us. We must turn off the internal editor and write.
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Of Cause and Effect, Twin Universes, and Sacrifice…
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays
The protagonist’s decision to act constitutes a cornerstone moment in the life a novel.
It signifies the shift from the beginning or set-up of the novel to the middle characterized as a process of action and reaction, better known as cause-and-effect. Still others term this area of the novel, and quite aptly, causality-and-build.
Cause-and-effect emphasizes the action and reaction quality representative of midsection of novels, the heart and lungs of the story.
Causality-and-build by its very words points to the uphill movement of the story towards crisis and climax that involves story and character arc.
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Plot: Stages of Evolution and Revelation
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays, Musings
“A hero ventures forth from the world of the common day into a region of supernatural wonder.”
–Joseph Campbell, “The Hero With A Thousand Faces”
Every story is about the extraordinary, the uncommon experience or event that occurs in the constancy of ordinary time. Nearly, if not always, this occurrence upsets the routine of the daily round [...]
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