the writing life…
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Musings
There is a Dream dreaming us.
–African Bushman
(The Mystic Vision–Daily Encounters with the Divine, Compiled by Andrew Harvey and Anne Baring)
How often do I create characters, work with them in uncovering their stories and personalities as I put write them on the page only to then meet a person who within seconds I recognize as one of my characters in a novel?
Very.
Of course these people have most often been around since long before I wrote or even conceived of the story to my novel, and its characters. I have not breathed them into life. And yet a connection exists between what we write and the life around us.
Let’s say for instance that the people I meet who remind me of characters I have created or who have emerged in my stories, have risen in some sense, from my novels.


What would that mean, that we as writers create characters whom we will then encounter in the physical form of human individuals through engagements and interactions and life?
And let’s say these people do not know, have no understanding or awareness that we are their creator.
Tags: African Bushmen, God, reality, writing
Of Identity, Persona and Naïveté…
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays, Musings
Like Adam and Eve whom God warned not to eat of the tree of knowledge in the Garden of Eden, the protagonists of our stories often encounter box they are to leave closed, lovers whose lips theirs are not to touch, forests in which they are encouraged not to wander alone, galas and balls that on attending they must exit by the stroke of midnight, and alas sea witches with whom they should strike no bargains.
And yet our central characters push the envelope open creating a second upheaval.
Tags: Adam, Eve, Garden of Eden, God, nakedness, persona, transformation, tree of good and evil
Fuel for Change
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays, Musings
“Summoned or not, the god will come.”
–motto on the door of Carl Jung’s home.
Archetypes help writers clarify a character’s function and role in the way of plot development and the evolution of personality regarding the protagonist. Stories are about growth and change. And archetypes carry energies.
Tags: archetype, Carl Jung, challenge, change, character, drama, energy, epic, evolution of personality, flat, fuel, full, God, growth, hero, heroine, journey, novel, plot development, protagonist, question, role, rounded, stick men, story, supporting cast, transformation, writer
Radio Show | Father’s Day Discussion of “The Soul of a Man”
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Event, Interview, Radio Show
The contributors to Peace in the Storm Publishing’s publication, “The Soul of a Man“, come together and discuss their experiences of working on the anthology.
So tune in.
Peace in the Storm Publishing
http://www.free-press-release.com/news/200904/1240755887.html
marclacy.com
http://aalbc.com/authors/fredrick.htm
William Fredrick Cooper
Joey Pinkney
http://www.theurbanbooksource.com/contributors/joey-pinkney.html
http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Joey_Pinkney
http://www.myspace.com/joeyreviews
http://www.facebook.com/people/Joey-Pinkney/1639102478
http://www.klthewriter.com/page/page/5575465.ht
http://www.jihadwrites.com/
http://www.holdonbestrong.com/jaroldimes.html
http://www.facebook.com/people/Brian-Ganges/1040878311
http://www.myspace.com/writethevisionmg
http://www.mauricemgrayjr.com/
http://theromerreview.com/trr/?page_id=3
http://www.myspace.com/alvincromerthejackal
Tags: Alvin Romer, anthology, Baba Simba Mollack, elissa gabrielle, Father's Day, fiction, God, Jarold Imes, Jihad, Joey Pinkney, K. L. Belvin, Marc Lacy, maurice gray jr., men, peace in the storm publishing, soul, spirituality, the soul of a man, William Fredrick Cooper
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