Of Agape, Climax, and Transubstantiation…
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays
With the passing of crisis come celebration, perhaps a love scene. Survival or resurrection from death provides the central character a wider scope of consciousness.
Personal concerns no longer drive the protagonist. Those of the community dominate her or his thoughts and actions instead. Agape love now influences their choices and behavior.
Personal suffering has yielded a greater respect and understanding of those aches and pains that affect, and beset the collective. From this emerges empathy guided by the wish to heal.
Tags: agape, battle, central character, climax, community, consciousness, crisis, crucifixion, death, elixir, Eucharist, healing, Holy Grail, major character, Mass, protagonist, symbol, transformation, transubstantiation
Of Crises, Experience and Goals…
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays
Surviving a crisis bestows special knowledge garnered and held by few.
It also grants admittance into various orders of wisdom yielded by experience.
Every novel or story a writer crafts tells the life of a certain crisis, and chronicles a central character’s survival of that crisis. The process of writing that novel flows out of an upheaval, the completion of which involves many obstacles that reach a crescendo of conflict and tension.
Tags: action, agent, arch enemy, author, battle, central character, character, conflict, crescendo, crisis, cure, dilemma, external, goals, internal, major character, mind, narrative line, novel, obstacles, pain, problem, protagonist, publishing contract, purpose, resolution, scenes, situation, story, struggle, suffering, surgeon, survival, tension, thrive, wisdom, writer
Setting the Stage
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays, Musings
What is your protagonist doing, and or saying when the curtain lifts on the set of that first page of your story, or novel?
Their actions and dialogue relay not only much about who they are while interacting in the world with others, but also their identity within the universe of their own personalities.
They also where [...]
Tags: beginning, change, chaos, end, major character, novel, personality, protagonist, setting the stage, story, transformation, upheaval
Plot: Stages of Evolution and Revelation
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays, Musings
“A hero ventures forth from the world of the common day into a region of supernatural wonder.”
–Joseph Campbell, “The Hero With A Thousand Faces”
Every story is about the extraordinary, the uncommon experience or event that occurs in the constancy of ordinary time. Nearly, if not always, this occurrence upsets the routine of the daily round [...]
Tags: change, chaos, evolution, heightened reality, Joseph Campbell, journey, major character, Mythic Structure for Writers, novel, ordinary, plot, protagonist, story, The Hero With A Thousand Faces, The Writer's Journey, transformation, trek extraordinary, writers
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