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.
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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
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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.
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Showing Up…
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays, Musings
Should the protagonist not appear, in court when summoned, the judge renders a default in favor of the opposing character, whether they be defendant or plaintiff.
The character has failed to present and/or make her or his case for a story. And so has the author.
All forward motion of plot ceases. No story exists, that is [...]
Tags: author, central character, character, court, default, defendant, dialogue, Finding Fish, goal, physical, plaintiff, plot, problem, prose, protagonist, psychic, situation, specificity, story, writing
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