Of Agape, Climax, and Transubstantiation…
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays
With the passing of crisis come celebration, perhaps a love scene. Survival or resurrection from death provides the central character a wider scope of consciousness.
Personal concerns no longer drive the protagonist. Those of the community dominate her or his thoughts and actions instead. Agape love now influences their choices and behavior.
Personal suffering has yielded a greater respect and understanding of those aches and pains that affect, and beset the collective. From this emerges empathy guided by the wish to heal.
Tags: agape, battle, central character, climax, community, consciousness, crisis, crucifixion, death, elixir, Eucharist, healing, Holy Grail, major character, Mass, protagonist, symbol, transformation, transubstantiation
Of Intermediate Regions, Hunger and Thirst…
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays
There stands an intermediate region in the life and structure of a novel, that place between crossing the border of the opening and beginning and entering into a series of actions that lead to the penultimate center of the journey.
It lies between the edge of that vast new world of survival that constitutes the protagonist’s path of growth and transformation, the steps she or he makes towards achieving their goal. It is a land filled obstacles of varied sorts, and the ultimate crisis that manifests profound change.
This area operates much like the night before that big game, the minutes ticking up to giving one’s debut concert. For writers this can function much like reading one’s novel for those last times wherein we institute final edits towards bringing the work to its brightest hue
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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
Of Avataric Moments, Desire, and Change
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays, Musings
Symbols link yearning and desire with the change and transformation required for the central character to achieve her or his goal.
To the extent that you can attach a physical object to the goal your central character fights to attain, the more you solidify, in the mind of the reader, the experience of your protagonist working [...]
Tags: avatar, central character, change, desire, destination, earth, epiphany, goal, heaven, internal experience, peace, picture, reader, redemption, story, symbol
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