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.
Why I Write…And When I Don’t…
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under ...the writing life..., Musings
I think the hardest thing about writing is staying with it. Yep, staying with it.
The words, the phrases, the sentences, the paragraphs. It’s all in there–the writing. [More...]
But to write you have to stay with it from the single letter to the period at the end of the sentence that concludes the last paragraph that finishes the book.
The Path of Writing: Word-by-Word
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays
Commitment to the word is also a vow to filling the blank page, either every day, every other day, each week, etc. We all have our schedules, our routines. Nothing gets written without them.
Commitment to The “Word”
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays
Commit yourself to the ‘word.’ Write your story. Don’t worry about who will publish it. –author, educator, Shon Bacon
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