Teacher, DeAnne M. Sherman discusses Finding My Way, I’m Not Alone and My Story, books written with her daughter, Michelle, a psychologist, in their mission to empower families affected by issues of war, trauma and/or mental illness.
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The Rook, Tower or Castle in the game of chess speaks to boundaries.
Towers and Castles of the medieval era served not simply as homes, but also places of protection, that place to which rulers, those of their court, and the soldiers guarding them retreated and from which they waged battle.
The Tower provided a place from which the sentry or guardsmen could look out and view those coming to do battle or offend–those who sought to defeat the monarch and occupy her or his home.
Each time we set out to write a story or novel, we wage a war.
Of Towers, Castles and the Battles Writers Wage… Read More »
Reaching that point where the protagonist has made the change, we, as writers feel differently.
We see the world of our novel from another level.
Ideally we come to hold those dimensions of personality regarding our central character(s) come in greater clarity and understanding.
And yet this is also a place where we can get to know ourselves better as individuals, not simply as persons who write.
Of Clarity and Understanding, Guide and Map, Epiphany and Plot… Read More »
The protagonist’s decision to act constitutes a cornerstone moment in the life a novel.
It signifies the shift from the beginning or set-up of the novel to the middle characterized as a process of action and reaction, better known as cause-and-effect. Still others term this area of the novel, and quite aptly, causality-and-build.
Cause-and-effect emphasizes the action and reaction quality representative of midsection of novels, the heart and lungs of the story.
Causality-and-build by its very words points to the uphill movement of the story towards crisis and climax that involves story and character arc.
Of Cause and Effect, Twin Universes, and Sacrifice… Read More »
Ever wondered what war is like for those who survive the physical batter and yet lay shattered beneath the psychological impairments of their battle? And what about the family members unable to fit the pieces together and create a lifeline of continuity for their loved ones who returned confused, bereaved and mournful at the loss
War, and Standing “In the Shadow of Suribachi” Read More »