Of Life, Physicality and Stories…
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays, Musings
Much of the ability to write compelling fiction comes from the willingness to sink one’s teeth into the substance of life, or that, which flows out of life.
Conversations, kind smiles, tilts of the head can reveal joy, simmering sadness, or the ache of a heart playing upon a crafted smile.
These are the human actions reflective of life and living that writers notice and expand upon either by writing a story or novel or tucking them away for later use in describing the response or motion of a character in the heat of conflict or a reverie of emotions stimulated by a memory.
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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
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