Author: Anjuelle Floyd
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Of John Gardner, Writing and The Worm Hole Experience…
“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…
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Ethics, Revisions and the Search for an Editor…
There are times where my writing runs head-on with my blogging. By writing I mean work on my novel. Presently, my novel, “The House” due out this summer is back from the copy editor, Shon Bacon. Once I make all the suggested changes I will forward the manuscript to my developmental editor for one more…
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Of Terry Brooks, Magic, and The Writer vs. The Author…
“There are writers and there are authors. Writers seek to write, and they seek to write better and better with every book. Authors seek only to be published, and they seek advances to match their egos.” –Elizabeth George in Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life by Terry Brooks. Elizabeth George offers this…
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Radio Show | Authors, Virginia DeBerry and Donna Grant
Authors, Virginia DeBerry and Donna Grant, discuss their new novel, “Uptown”. Ms. Deberry and Grant have also written, “What Doesn’t Kill You”, “Gotta Keep on Tryin'”, “Exposures”, “Better Than I Know Myself”, “Trying to Sleep in the Bed You Made”, “Far From the Tree”. So tune in.
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Of Fame, Privacy and The Complexity of Human Relationships…
..People have complex relationships, such as the Blacks and the Browns have in “Mrs. Black?,” and they work out their dilemmas in their homes every single day without people knowing about it. Angelia Menchan, author of “Ramblings,” “Schae’s Story,” “Is No Not Clear Enough for You?, as well as publisher and author of Women’s Writes.…
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Writing, Transformation, and The Unadulterated Truth…
Of how Nella’s Down’s Syndrome has changed her, Kelle Hampton writes, “I’ve learned how “pain” shapes you as a person and propels you to new depths and how “perfection” is not the glossy magazine cover that Hollywood portrays. I’m learning to shed off the shallow parts of my character I’ve adopted over the years and…