Of Character Shifts, Balloon Boy and Well-Meaning Friends…
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays
Entering the meat of a novel offers revelation after revelation.
Personalities come forth, shift and recede into the murky lands from which they emerged.
Characters shift positions in an effort to hold honor to, if not find their authentic identity. Perceptions change. The child of truth and wisdom forged by time and circumstance relays the story within [...]
Tags: American landscape, Balloon Boy, central plains, child, cold, famous author, helmet, hot air balloon, infant, loneliness, narrative, novel, perceptions, personalities, reality television, recognition, rock star, salt, skullcap, truth, well-meaning friends, worth, writers, writing
Of Cruise Ships, Planes, Ocean and Sky…
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays, Musings
Traveling by ship, or cruising, starts with the point or process of embarkation, going onto the ship and finding our room. Your bags arrive soon after that. And within an hour or so the ship sets sail.
Unlike with an airplane, where matters move at a faster pac
Tags: back story, beginning, cause-and-effect, contex, cruise ships, end, history, middle, novels, obstacles, personality, readers, ship, situation, transition, travel, writers, writing
Plot: Stages of Evolution and Revelation
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays, Musings
“A hero ventures forth from the world of the common day into a region of supernatural wonder.”
–Joseph Campbell, “The Hero With A Thousand Faces”
Every story is about the extraordinary, the uncommon experience or event that occurs in the constancy of ordinary time. Nearly, if not always, this occurrence upsets the routine of the daily round [...]
Tags: change, chaos, evolution, heightened reality, Joseph Campbell, journey, major character, Mythic Structure for Writers, novel, ordinary, plot, protagonist, story, The Hero With A Thousand Faces, The Writer's Journey, transformation, trek extraordinary, writers
Chameleons and The Evolution of Character
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays, Musings
Writers and others in the dramatic arts find it hard to grasp the function of the Shapeshifter archetype due to its strongly psychological nature, and its role in story. Because of the energy it embodies, some term the Shapeshifter a Chameleon.
When viewed as a force, or aspect of personality or character the Shapeshifter operates [...]
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