Our Greatest Fear, Our Earnest Hope: To Love and Be Loved…
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under ...married life | why i write...
Love strengthens and transforms. It also frightens.
Experiencing love, true unadulterated and unconditional love, freely given soothes us in places long hardened over time by insults and wounds inflicted in the flesh and to our character and emotions.
Love and acceptance despite and because of who we are, faults, shortcomings, warts and all exhumes not only our previous injuries, but lifts our vulnerabilities to the surface.
The frightened girls and boys that our hard exteriors have hidden over the years are summoned forth.
We descend to our knees in the face of an eternal truth.
Tags: fear, hope, love, Marianne Williamson, marriage, Nelson Mandela, poem, self-acceptance, Song of Solomon, Song of Songs, strengthen, transform, vulnerabilities |
Of John Gardner, Writing and The Worm Hole Experience…
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays, Musings
“Any event that seems to the given writer startling, curious, or interest-laden can form the climax of a possible story.”
–John Gardner in The Art of Fiction
Climax is that place in the story or novel where the protagonist, the main character, reveals in action, that she or he has integrated knowledge gained through the experience of the journey.
Through thought, word, and deed, the central character shows she or he has been changed, transformed. It follows crisis.
Tags: acceptance, action, arc of story, central character, change, choice, climax, crisis, dark night of the soul, decision, deed, experience, hour glass, human experience, John Gardner, journey, knowledge, major character, mountain top, protagonist, rebirth, resurrect, survival, The Art of Fiction, thought, transform, transformation, valley, word, worm hole
Transformation: Making the Ordinary into the Extraordinary
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays
Just as all good stories contain aspects of redemption, and death, so too transformation forms the engine propelling the narrative. A major character or protagonist is like the Prophet Ezekiel in the Old Testament. God used Ezekiel to teach the Children of Israel how to suffer. Protagonists of our stories show readers, in much the [...]
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