Calvino was brave because he sat down to write what interested him – not what might interest other people. He had a day job in a publishing house, and he sought neither celebrity nor wealth. He was the extreme other of the creative writing course wannabe. He loved the short fictional form, which was a […]
Italo Calvino, The Micro Chapter and Writing What Interests You Read More »
With the last of t he edits underway on my new publication, The House, due for release in Fall 2009, I’ve found myself pondering my next story. A novel, the idea came to me sometime last week. I now realize it popped into my head after overhearing a conversation wherein a middle-aged woman in speaking
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Ayelet Waldman, wife of author Michael Chabon, mother of four and author in her own right, discusses on NPR’s Fresh Air, her trials of feeling that she’s not measuring up to what a “good mother” as defined by the late 20th early 21st century ideals.
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Authors, K. L. Belvin, and Jihad will join me in discussing their works, “The Choice Redone,” (Belvin) and “3 Letters to 3 Caged Kings on Lockdown” (Jihad) in the anthology, The Soul of a Man, published by Peace in the Storm Press, and due for release in June 2009. So tune in. http://www.blogtalkradio.com/anjuellefloyd/2009/05/09/Authors-K-L-Belvin-and-Jihad-on-their-contributions-to-The-Soul-of-a-Man Visit K.
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Stories come to us in many ways. Some of us receive them in images, others in certain ideal we desire to see played out. Some of us get the plot. And the some of us get taken by a character that won’t let us go. They fill our thoughts and days. We listen to them
Have Character, But No Story? Read More »
We’ve all heard as writers that character feeds, or drives plot. But how often does someone show us how this occurs? As a psychotherapist, wife and mother of 3 along with being an author I’ve given a lot of thought to this. Also my stories a heavily character driven. I think an awful lot about
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Dialogue has to show not only something about the speaker that is its own revelation, but also maybe something about the speaker that he doesn’t know but the other character does know. –Eudora Welty Good dialogue accomplishes 4 things in fiction: reveals and develops character delivers backstory drives Plot directs pace But there are more
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