Symbols: Talismans of Endeavors, Memory and Emotion
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays, Musings
Large amounts of exposition leave readers weary and if not carefully positioned breaks the dream spell ideally evoked at the outset of a novel.
Mining your fiction enriches your protagonist’s journey for the reader. They also serve as markers serving as point of identification that allow readers to touch upon the protagonist’s struggle.
Tags: character, dream spell, emotion, endeavors, fiction, hopes and wishes, internal exprience, journey, marker, memory, novel, point of identifcation, protagonist, reader, struggle, symbol, talisman, thought
Civility and Order
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays
The word, hero, in Greek means, “to protect and to serve“. We often find these words on the side of police cars. Thus we think of law enforcement.
And yet, from the etymological perspective rooted in Greek, what is to be protected?
What or who needs and desires safety of survival?
What is ultimately at stake with [...]
Tags: bread, chaos, civility, DeCartes, ego, food, Greek, hero, heroine, humankind, journey, law enforcement, mundane reality, order, protect, routine, serve, spiritual, stake, story, survival, thought, threat
So You Want to Write a Novel: Situation and Story
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays, Musings
If you want to write a novel then you must begin to think of the situation, and the story.
Situation is context, the nature of events that brought about the story. Story is sequence of events regarding the preceding change.
Tags: change, conflict, context, movie, nexus, novel, sibling rivalry, situation, story, theme, thought
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