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.
Tags: action, Antoine Fisher, author, central character, character, context, court, default, defendant, dialogue, Finding Fish, foster care, foster children, foster mother, goal, Harry Potter, judge, memoir, orphan, personality, physical, plaintiff, plot, plot aware, problem, prose, protagonist, psychic, roots, situation, specificity, specifics, story, writing
Mentor and Story
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays, Musings
Mentors are the wisdom-carriers in stories. They infect the protagonist or major character with knowledge and information needed to complete their quest.
Mentors encourage the heroine or hero to believe, and have faith in her or his ability to meet the challenge standing before them. On a psycho-spiritual level mentors represent the Imago Dei, the god-image [...]
Tags: acceptance, Brittany Murphy, challenge, Dakota Fanning, Daniel LaRusso, discipline, Divne, Dumbledore, encourage, fatherless, fears, flaws, fun, fundamentals, Harry Potter, Imago Dei, information, knowledge, love, mentor, motherless, Mr. Miyagi, nanny, nurturiing, orphan, parent, Pat Morita, protagonist, psycho-spiritual, quest, Ralph Macchio, Ray Schleine, redemption, respect, sagacity, soul, story, The Karate Kid, Uptown Girls, wax off, wax on, wisdom
Angel or Demon: Dan Brown and “The Lost Symbol” of His Writing
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays
Dan Brown’s first new novel since The DaVinci Code was announced yesterday. Inevitably, it involves a global cult and a race against time to unlock a secret formula.
Details of the plot are likely to remain fiercely guarded until much nearer the publication date of September 15, but intrigue centres on whether Brown’s vast and conspiracy-crazed [...]
Tags: Angels and Demons, authors, Ben Hoyle, critique, Dan Brown, DaVinci Code, drama, fiction, Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling, Louvre, movies, scenes, screen writing, simple writing, Stephanie Meyer, structure, The Lost Symbol, Times, Twilight, UK, writing
Angel or Demon: Dan Brown and "The Lost Symbol" of His Writing
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays
Dan Brown’s first new novel since The DaVinci Code was announced yesterday. Inevitably, it involves a global cult and a race against time to unlock a secret formula.
Details of the plot are likely to remain fiercely guarded until much nearer the publication date of September 15, but intrigue centres on whether Brown’s vast and conspiracy-crazed [...]
Tags: Angels and Demons, authors, Ben Hoyle, critique, Dan Brown, DaVinci Code, drama, fiction, Harry Potter, J. K. Rowling, Louvre, movies, scenes, screen writing, simple writing, Stephanie Meyer, structure, The Lost Symbol, Times, Twilight, UK, writing
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