Of Envy, Doubt, and Still More Risks…
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays
Following crisis, the protagonist must choose, decide and act. Will she or he return to business as usual, keeping secret what they have learned, or will they share it with others?
Will they share the healing they have undergone with others, or will she or he choose the safe path of saying little or nothing about the internal changes that have reshaped them?
Risks come with sharing the good news of our survival of any upheaval or time of broad sweeping changes. We face the possibility of those we tell refusing to believe us.
Those who do may grow envious, and then exploit the doubts still others hold and turn who groups of people against us.
Tags: agent, author, central character, change, crisis, doubt, envy, faith, novel, protagonist, publisher, risk, self-publish, stake, story, survival, transcendance, transformation, writer
Of Illusions, Diamonds, and The Imago Dei…
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays
Crises consist of many obstacles, the least of which include illusions, and deceptions. Illusions held about life, and deceptions by others, and self fiercely clung to often comprise the nets limiting awareness.
Reaching the peak of crisis, and fighting the battle that awaits requires perseverance and remaining focused on the task at hand.
Doing so generates the strength and acuity to cut through the gales of misconceptions and shatter intricate pillars supporting half-truths, and lies of omission.
To the degree these inconsistencies are destroyed the protagonist gains a depth of insight nearly parallel or akin to prophecy.
In reality their vision to does not extend into the future.
Rather they are more able to behold the events and consequences of actions that stand before them.
Climbing the summit of one’s dilemma’s and problems, meeting the physical obstacles tied to inner demons and slaying the monsters of betrayal, and self-delusions grants clearer vision, both within and around one.
Experience and knowledge sows seeds from which sprout the gifts of truth and honesty wrapped in a bow of fortitude to remain committed to what is, and not turn away, when our wishes are not immediately granted.
Tags: antagonist, arrogance, awareness, betrayal, death, diamond, epiphany, fear, fortitude, half-truths, honesty, illusions, life, perseverance, protagonist, rebirth, self-deception, survival, vulerability, willingness
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.
Tags: action, agent, arch enemy, author, battle, central character, character, conflict, crescendo, crisis, cure, dilemma, external, goals, internal, major character, mind, narrative line, novel, obstacles, pain, problem, protagonist, publishing contract, purpose, resolution, scenes, situation, story, struggle, suffering, surgeon, survival, tension, thrive, wisdom, writer
Hark, the Herald Angels Sing!
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays, Musings
Much like Paul Revere announced the British were on their way to do battle in Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, the Herald archetype in storytelling announces change and transformation to the major character.
The Herald places the protagonist on a state of alert, tells him or her how to read the signs, “One if by land, two [...]
Tags: archetype, battle, bid, British, challenge, change, character, Concord, dare, encourage, energy, Guardians of the Threshold, Herald, Lexington, mask, mentor, Paul Revere, plot, protagonist, role, story, survival, transformation
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