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	<title>Anjuelle Floyd &#187; Toni Morrison</title>
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		<title>Of Mars in Cancer, Courts of Change, and Travels…</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anjuelle Floyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every story is like a court case wherein we, the author, like an attorney, tries a case of our protagonist.

Who is on trial?

Is your protagonist the defendant or the plaintiff seeking judgment and damages for a wrong committed upon her or him?

If she or his had been wronged then what was the crime and the injury inflicted?

Who committed the injustice?

What cries out for change?

Is this injustice still occurring at the outset of the novel?

If so what does the central character need to accomplish to stop the wrongful act?

The story we craft becomes our protagonist's quest, their journey to achieve justice and survival, a tale of change and transformation.]]></description>
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		<title>The Writer, Narrative, and Evolution…</title>
		<link>http://www.anjuellefloyd.com/2010/03/29/the-writer-narrative-and-evolution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 01:55:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anjuelle Floyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[...the writing life...]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Make up a story. Narrative is radical, creating us at every moment it is being created.
--Toni Morrison (Accountable:  Making America as Good as Its Promise by Tavis Smiley)

These words gripped me the first time I read them. That was over a week ago. In the days since, I have repeated and shared them with others.

Each time I speak them their meaning, the truth of purpose and process of what I do as a writer, the depth of impression left by the work I do, enlarges.

As writers we are constantly remaking ourselves through the words we write, the stories we tell, the plots we weave and unbraid.]]></description>
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		<title>Of Narrative, Journeys, and What Compels Us to Write…</title>
		<link>http://www.anjuellefloyd.com/2010/03/23/of-narrative-journeys-and-what-compels-us-to-write/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 01:57:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anjuelle Floyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Make up a story. Narrative is radical, creating us at the very moment it is being created."

--Toni Morrison, Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning author

The protagonist, in reaching home, during this last chapter of the journey, must evidence that she or he has traveled, not simply waited steps beyond home, seconds beyond the gates of the home native city and after sufficient time to have journeyed far, they reappear with their tale.

Just as the central character must evidence the crisis has transformed her or his way of thinking regarding making decisions, so too, when reaching home again, she or he must demonstrated they have traveled, that they have truly been away.

Often when we travel we bring back gifts for those we love.

The gifts come from the places we have been, where our itinerary of travel has taken us.]]></description>
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		<title>interesting and blessed day…</title>
		<link>http://www.anjuellefloyd.com/2009/08/16/interesting-and-blessed-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 14:03:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anjuelle Floyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[interesting day&#8230; i interviewed novelist, Thrity Umrigar, on her latest work, The Weight of Heaven. such a nice person. then i wrote several blogs about her. south asian writers have so influenced me&#8211;Jhumpa Lahiri, Lavanya Sankaran, Manil Suri, and of course, Thrity Umrigar.. i wish more black and african americans read their work. we could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So You Want to Write a Story: Where Does Your Story Take Place?</title>
		<link>http://www.anjuellefloyd.com/2009/08/03/so-you-want-to-write-a-stop-where-does-your-story-take-place/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:49:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anjuelle Floyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The setting of a novel addresses where the story takes place, location, but also the time period wherein the change of events occurs. Setting and time period are important dimensions to a story. In many stories they act as additional characters. The house wherein Sethe, of Toni Morrison&#8217;s novel, &#8220;Beloved&#8220;, lives is haunted. Setting here [...]]]></description>
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