Category: Articles & Essays
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Of Reviewers, “Where the Dog Star Never Glows,” and Lifting Spirits…
Author, and editor, Tara Masih recently wrote a blog on the importance of reviewers. Book reviewers provide an invaluable service to writers in both the areas of helping us get the word about about our work–promotion–and emotional support. Mention in Tara’s blog is author and reviewer, Angela Lam Turpin. In addition to writing reviews, Angela…
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Anjuelle Floyd as Guest Blogger @ “Project to Published”
Take a peak at my guest blog in the series Project to Published at The Thirteenth Chime/Emma Michaels’ Blogspot . Emma Michaels is the author of The Thirteenth Chime about a college coed prepared to graduate, enjoy a relaxing summer with her friend, and marry, but whose world is turned upside down when an antique…
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Of Sword Fights, The Himalayas, And so on… And so on…
Of Sword Fights, The Himalayas, And so on… And so on… Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays, anjuellefloyd.com Have you ever watched a scene from a movie where two sword fighters are going at it? And then they begin to move up the stairs, one sword fighter, moving in reverse up…
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Of Revelations, Developments and Hidden Aspects of Personality…
Novels consist of a string of revelations. These revelations, consistently timed and well paced comprise and provide an important part of plot. As such they play and inherent and necessary role in character development. Revelations lead to irrevocable moments wherein the protagonist, when faced with an immediate challenge demanding on the spot response, makes a…
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Of Queens, Personalities, Wishes and Desires…
In chess, the Queen stands to the right of the King. Her major job is that of protecting the King. The dilemma of preventing the King’s capture rests upon the Queen’s head. As such the Queen’s movements are central to winning the game of chess. Establishing the major dilemma or problem in a story is…
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Of Spirals, Parking Garages, and Points of Entry and Identification…
The road that led your protagonist away at the opening of your novel or story brings her or him home again during the final stage, but at a new level of awareness. And since time has moved forward, while the central character has been gone, we could entitle the journey, Back to the Future and…