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 Life, Physicality and Stories…
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays, Musings
Much of the ability to write compelling fiction comes from the willingness to sink one’s teeth into the substance of life, or that, which flows out of life.
Conversations, kind smiles, tilts of the head can reveal joy, simmering sadness, or the ache of a heart playing upon a crafted smile.
These are the human actions reflective of life and living that writers notice and expand upon either by writing a story or novel or tucking them away for later use in describing the response or motion of a character in the heat of conflict or a reverie of emotions stimulated by a memory.
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Change, Suffering and Digging Deeper
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays, Musings
Buddhism teaches that all things change, and that suffering is inherent to life.
As humans we add to this suffering, or rather amplify it, by trying to hold onto the narrative line that we have fed ourselves.
We resist the reality of change the various truths evidenced by its existence.
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Meaning and the Artist’s Time
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays, Musings
Creators have trouble maintaining meaning. …
A creative person is vulnerable to meaning crises, and hence depression, by virtue of our relationship to meaning.
Eric Maisel, PhD, in the introduction of his book, the VAN GOGH BLUES, The Creative Person’s Path Through Depression
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