Of Clarity and Understanding, Guide and Map, Epiphany and Plot…
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays
Reaching that point where the protagonist has made the change, we, as writers feel differently.
We see the world of our novel from another level.
Ideally we come to hold those dimensions of personality regarding our central character(s) come in greater clarity and understanding.
And yet this is also a place where we can get to know ourselves better as individuals, not simply as persons who write.
Tags: action, battle, central character, change, character, climax, crisis, denouement, epiphany, fear, guide, journey, map, melancholy, motive, novel, personality, perspective, plot, protagonist, resolution, sadness, scene, scenery, setting, story, transformation, viewpoint, war, writer
Of Cruise Ships, Planes, Ocean and Sky…
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays, Musings
Traveling by ship, or cruising, starts with the point or process of embarkation, going onto the ship and finding our room. Your bags arrive soon after that. And within an hour or so the ship sets sail.
Unlike with an airplane, where matters move at a faster pac
Tags: back story, beginning, cause-and-effect, contex, cruise ships, end, history, middle, novels, obstacles, personality, readers, ship, situation, transition, travel, writers, writing
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
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 [...]
Tags: antagonist, blemishes, body, central character, cracks, crevices, cry, feeling, fiction, flaws, humanity, limitations, mind, novel, obstacles, past failures, personality, points of identifcation, protagonist, readers, scream, spirit, story, strengths, symbol, Teflon, transforms, vulnerability
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