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 [...]
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Transformation: Making the Ordinary into the Extraordinary
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays, Musings
Just as all good stories contain aspects of redemption, and death, so too transformation forms the engine propelling the narrative.
A major character or protagonist is like the Prophet Ezekiel in the Old Testament. God used Ezekiel to teach the Children of Israel how to suffer. Protagonists of our stories show readers, in much the same [...]
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