Of Dilemmas, Alice in Wonderland, and Shifts in Consciousness…
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays
There comes a time in every story or novel when the main character stands in the midst of her or his dilemma like Alice does in Wonderland.
The protagonist ponders, How do present circumstances differ from my immediate past?
This place, like that of Alice in her wondrous, and yet frightening Wonderland sits between the time of order in the life of the main character, then shaken by chaos and the present time of having begun the journey towards adapting to the change required by the moment of upheaval and the need to survive.
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Magic and Craft
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays, Musings
Author of literary thrillers,” Lisa Unger, was my guest on Saturday’s broadcast (September 26, 2009) of Book Talk, Creativity and Family Matters.
“Die for You,” her latest release, and the other books she has penned (8 total), were among the many things we discussed, along with working to find balance between her work as a career [...]
Tags: art, blessings, craft, Die for You, discipline, drafts, gifts, gods, Lisa Unger, magic, revision, story, transformation, writing novel
Flexibility and the Writers Capacity for Growth and Learning
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays, Musings
The novel or short story is first and foremost a source of entertainment, what consumers turn to among myriad of choices, to provide rest and relaxation, from a world moving at breakneck speed. To insure the most comfortable reading experience, writers want to offer a story with interesting plot, centered on characters about the reader [...]
Tags: author, character, copy editing, craft, developmental editing, dialogue, editing, editor, fiction, Linda Beed, Lynel Johnson Washington, novels, plot, revising, revision, setting, short stories, writing
The Developmental Editor, The Copy Editor
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays, Musings
A poorly written story or a novel with gaps in plot structure or characters that act incongruent to the personality established at the outset of the work are like a movie that appears fuzzy on the screen, out of view and unfocused.
Developmental editors like Linda Beed can spot these malfunctions in story and suggest ways [...]
Tags: author, character, copy editing, craft, developmental editing, dialogue, editing, editor, fiction, Linda Beed, Lynel Johnson Washington, novels, plot, revising, revision, setting, short stories, writing
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