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Of Dilemmas, Alice in Wonderland, and Shifts in Consciousness…

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There comes a time in every story or novel when the main character stands in the midst of her or his dilemma like Alice does in Wonderland.

The protagonist ponders, How do present circumstances differ from my immediate past?

This place, like that of Alice in her wondrous, and yet frightening Wonderland sits between the time of order in the life of the main character, then shaken by chaos and the present time of having begun the journey towards adapting to the change required by the moment of upheaval and the need to survive.

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Why I Write…And When I Don’t…

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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.

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Mentor and Story

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Mentors are the wisdom-carriers in stories. They infect the protagonist or major character with knowledge and information needed to complete their quest. Mentors encourage the heroine or hero to believe, and have faith in her or his ability to meet the challenge standing before them. On a psycho-spiritual level mentors represent the Imago Dei, the

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Archetypes and Story

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Much like the gods and goddesses of Hinduism and Yoruban spirituality reflect the forces of the human mind and heart, archetypes display aspects and dimensions of character and personality. They show the various degrees of evolution of the human soul from birth to death.

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The Writer and The Temple

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—Green my life and remove my sorrows. The picture is stunning. But it was the words underneath that caught my attention.The relationship between global warming and fiction writing may not present as clear.

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perspective….

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it’s 18 minutes after midnight. the kids are in bed. my adolescent has completed 2.5 days of the new year. my 5th grader has their first day tomorrow. it’s a half day with no aftercare; pick-up is at noon. then my high schooler gets out at 2pm. we have lunch. tomorrow is my last day,

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The Courage to Dance and Write

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Writers dance with our characters. The words we write are the music delivering rhythm by which our feet move. The sentences and paragraphs that follow spin a melody, the context and situation wherein we in crafting our stories offer not only a depiction of transformation and change, but also the epiphany and transcendence of our

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