Of Revelation, Illusions and the Parallel Processes of Writing and Discovery…

Revelation plays an important role in constructing and/or assembling the middle section of a novel.

Revelation also encompasses the uncovering of truth of what has always stood present, but remained hidden by strong held illusions and beliefs.

Stories and novels stand upon revelations, ones that sustain the cause-and-effect events that comprise, most particularly, the plot of a novel and that lead towards crisis and onto climax.

The protagonist, central character, of a story enters a journey, in search of achieving, and securing her or his goal or in escaping that which stands to destroy her or him.

Each obstacle and/or antagonist she or he encounters presents an opportunity for discovery, that of uncovering one more piece to the puzzle that aids in the achievement of her or his goal.

These obstacles and antagonists also mirror aspects of the major character. They stand like mirrors that upon greeting her or himself and looking into her or his eyes, the protagonist sees ever more deeply into her or his soul.

Like wise the writer, in persevering forward when writing our story or revising that rough draft, purges deeper into the depths of who we are as both a writer and a person.

The central character, a creation of our imagination and soul serves as our eyes, a sentient probe, if you will, that allows us to draw near the essence of our identity and look into our eyes, the windows of our soul and behold our heart.

The process of both creating a character and sending her or him on their way onto the path of a story parallels our will and struggle to chronicle that story with heart and soul, and do it clearly without editing and twisting the event to suit our needs or worse yet, those of our ego.

Each time we write we set out to learn more about ourselves. That is not our single and foremost goal.

We may not hold it as a desire at all.

And yet this is what we seek.

On some subconscious level, we are all drawn to writing, the spill our thoughts onto the page and then in reading we approach each disconnect as a discovery, an uncovering, a revelation wherein and through which we come to see and comprehend more clearly the world around us, ourselves, and out place in this world.