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		<title>…the writing life… &#124; “Bollywood, The Hijinks of Thrillers, and Definition…”</title>
		<link>http://www.anjuellefloyd.com/2010/08/26/the-writing-life-bollywood-the-hijinks-of-thrillers-and-definition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:44:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anjuelle Floyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[...the writing life...]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am always amazed how much screen time Bollywood movies donate to establishing and clarifying family relations of the film’s protagonist compared to the nil to absent mention of family connections in American movies.

The protagonist of an American made movie can be undergoing the direst and most despairing of circumstances and the screenplay makes no mention of mother, father, sister, or brother. Often very little time or explanation is given to the ex-spouse or ex-significant other, unless she or he is central to the plot.

Where Bollywood movies perhaps overdramatize the gifts and goodness of family, American theater emphasizes the need to break away and discover who one truly is.]]></description>
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		<title>…Married Life-why i write… &#124; “Antonya Nelson, Escapism, and The New Frontier…”</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anjuelle Floyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[...married life ...]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A Gift for the Short Story Form]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[During a recent interview for The Writer Magazine, short story writer, Antonya Nelson, also dubbed, "...master of domestic drama..." received the received the statement, "...your work focuses on family-centered problems. Sue Miller has said men used to light out for the territories, but that 'home' is the new frontier."

To the interviewer, Sarah Anne Johnson's question, "Do you agree?" Nelson responded, "I write about families because that's what I know. I'm very glad other writers are writing about other things and places, adventures abroad, wars and plagues and science and zombies. But what I know intimately, what I can report on honestly, what I think about endlessly, is the relations among people who are attached to one another helplessly by faithfulness and need, as well as wrestling a contrary urge to be individuals. Family dramas are always positing the self vs. community, private vs. the public, and most importantly, the head vs. the heart."
--A Gift for the Short Form, by Sarah Anne Johnson, The Writer Magazine, September 2010

Reading this I knew immediately that Antonya Nelson was someone whose work I needed to start reading, not simply and so much from my perspective as a writer, but as a person who loves reading about families working it out, trying to work it out, sometimes, and oftentimes failing to work it out.

I am also a writer, who as a wife of 28 years and mother of 3, ages 11, 18, and 23, continually ponders and explores the nature of the marriage relationship, connections that spin and sprout from this union and how ripples in this union spread to those interactions of family members surrounding them.]]></description>
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		<title>Of Writing, Integrity and The Company We Keep…</title>
		<link>http://www.anjuellefloyd.com/2010/07/07/of-writing-integrity-and-the-company-we-keep%e2%80%a6f/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:54:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anjuelle Floyd</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.anjuellefloyd.com/?p=8221</guid>
		<description><![CDATA["When we set out to judge—ridicule pillory, condemn, sneer at or…impugn our characters--we fail at our objective. Instead of making our characters look bad we make ourselves suspect."
----Peter Selgin, 179 Ways to Save a Novel: Matters of Vital Concern to Fiction Writers

We are known by the company we keep. In the case of a writer, that company consists of our characters and our attitude towards them.

Simply put, what kind of person would choose to writer 60,000 words, or there about, centered on a person or persons our words demonstrate that we dislike, hold little or no respect for, or even loathe?

Would you as a reader trust anything this writer has to say?]]></description>
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		<title>Uncertainty, Destination, and the Need to Know&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.anjuellefloyd.com/2010/07/03/uncertainty-destination-and-the-need-to-know/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 15:55:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anjuelle Floyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[doubt]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are ruled by uncertainty. The need to know shapes our motives, what we ask for, desire, fear and seek to claim.

And so it is in writing that we encounter a somewhat safe haven.

The writer has a general idea of the destination of her or his story if not, how it shall end.

But this is an illusion too.]]></description>
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		<title>Of Setting, Change, Action, and Dilemmas…</title>
		<link>http://www.anjuellefloyd.com/2010/07/02/of-setting-change-action-and-dilemmas%e2%80%a6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 10:12:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anjuelle Floyd</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Masterful Storyteller]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What creates setting, both physical and emotional?

And what goes into creating a setting that stimulates a reader to feel?

What is the challenge of creating a formative and transformative setting?

What needs to remain static and constant in a setting?

And what needs to cry out for change?

These questions point out the importance of setting and the challenge of meeting the needs that setting addresses in a story or novel.

John Truby, author of The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Masterful Storyteller, advises that the setting of a novel needs to include 2-3 separate and distinct places.

His belief debunks the idea that a good story needs to have a list of settings in order to sustain interest and hold the reader's attention.]]></description>
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