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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Of Crevices, Cracks and Teflon…
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays, Musings
Symbols deepen what we, as readers, come to know and experience with a character.
But what makes us feel with and for her, or him [the protagonist]–cry with them, scream for them, die with them?
What ultimately moves and transforms us, the reader, along with the central character of a story, or novel?
Certainly obstacles and a great [...]
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Archetypes and Story
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays, Musings
Much like the gods and goddesses of Hinduism and Yoruban spirituality reflect the forces of the human mind and heart, archetypes display aspects and dimensions of character and personality.
They show the various degrees of evolution of the human soul from birth to death.
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The Courage to Dance and Write
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays
Writers dance with our characters.
The words we write are the music delivering rhythm by which our feet move.
The sentences and paragraphs that follow spin a melody, the context and situation wherein we in crafting our stories offer not only a depiction of transformation and change, but also the epiphany and transcendence of our protagonists.
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