“I have learned, on my journeys, that if I let a day go by without writing, I grow uneasy. Two days and I am in tremor. Three and I suspect lunacy. Four and I might as well be a hog, suffering the flux in a wallow. An hour’s writing is a tonic. …Taking your pinch […]
Arsenic, Tremors and the Tonic of Writing… Read More »
The area of a novel that follows climax brings renewal. Yet writing this part of the story gets tricky.
Rolling towards the finish line authors can easily lose control of the narrative. We must remain upon the horse of our story.
Climax has delivered a delayed and second crisis a second form of transformation, what some might call the aftershocks of the major earthquake of the peak crisis bringing everything to its head.
In this way novels can be seen to have three major crises or turning points from which others hurricanes or twisters of change spin off.
First comes the initial shake up, the initiating problem that rises from the dilemma rooted in back-story. Then comes the arc of action where the protagonist meets with her or his archenemy, that from which she or he has been running or pursuing the length of the story.
Then comes the crisis.
Of Swords, Inner Demons and the Waters of Renewal… Read More »
A teacher under whom I studied one said that, “Writing is the mind on the page.”
Now a published author, I often wonder when reading, whose mind does what I am