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.
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Of Intermediate Regions, Hunger and Thirst…
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays
There stands an intermediate region in the life and structure of a novel, that place between crossing the border of the opening and beginning and entering into a series of actions that lead to the penultimate center of the journey.
It lies between the edge of that vast new world of survival that constitutes the protagonist’s path of growth and transformation, the steps she or he makes towards achieving their goal. It is a land filled obstacles of varied sorts, and the ultimate crisis that manifests profound change.
This area operates much like the night before that big game, the minutes ticking up to giving one’s debut concert. For writers this can function much like reading one’s novel for those last times wherein we institute final edits towards bringing the work to its brightest hue
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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 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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