Musings – Page 5 – Anjuelle Floyd

Writing, Transformation, and The Unadulterated Truth…

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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 replace them with love and appreciation for real, painful, beautiful life.”

I can’t say that I have mastered the ability to write to my core in such an eloquent way.

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Dying, Revision and Editing, and Striking a Balance…

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Writing a book is akin to dying. We are never the same person when completing the book that we were when starting out.

The various revisions through which we take our stories and novels, transform us.

The opportunity and our ability to take in constructive comments helps us along the path to achieving what we all desire–bringing the writing in our book to exemplify and evidence our personal best.

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Editors, The Basics of Crafting Fiction, and Apple’s iPad…

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Yesterday I spoke at length with Shonelle Bacon, who completed the first copy editing for my soon to be released novel, “The House.” It was a great experience.

I always learn so much from the editors with whom I work. Their comments on my work not only show where corrections are needed, but provide great insight into writing patterns, those I want to modify, eliminate, and improve, and those that I want to continue.

I am always surprised when they mention my accomplishment of an aspect of writing that I had not I idea I was performing.

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The Writer, Narrative, and Evolution…

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Make up a story. Narrative is radical, creating us at every moment it is being created.
–Toni Morrison (Accountable: Making America as Good as Its Promise by Tavis Smiley)

These words gripped me the first time I read them. That was over a week ago. In the days since, I have repeated and shared them with others.

Each time I speak them their meaning, the truth of purpose and process of what I do as a writer, the depth of impression left by the work I do, enlarges.

As writers we are constantly remaking ourselves through the words we write, the stories we tell, the plots we weave and unbraid.

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Men, Women and The Taboo of Love and Romance in Marriage…

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Author, poet, novelist, and writing teacher, David Mura states: “Identifying what compels you to write, reveals the reason we are driven to write each or our works.”

To complicate things, I find that not only is the reason that I write multi-faceted, it also evolves and shifts at various intervals in my life.

I initially began to write because I wanted to read stories of characters with whom I could identify with by culture and race.

On a deeper level, I wanted to read about characters who shared not only my race and culture as an African American woman of the American South, but of a middle class background, who in many ways could appear quite Waspish, but was not.

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Passion, Blogging, and The Core of Who We Are…

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“My issue is figuring out what to write about outside the magazine. I have made a list of topics of interest… would like to establish myself in a particular subject area. Any ideas of how I can do this?…”

My response, after thanking the visitor for submitting their question was, “What is your passion?…You want to begin identifying that which most interests your heart and soul.”

The key to successful blogging is to consistently post new material, and writing articles that both engage the readers and visitors to your website while providing them useful information.

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Moviegoers, Story, and Dreams…

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As movie studios lament the low numbers of moviegoers that seems to be dwindling the directors and producers seemed to going after gimmicks of technology to draw crowds back to the theater.

Movies made in 3-D, and shown on Imax screens comprise the recent fads that are but an extension of forcing plot over character in an effort to engage audiences.

In years past this effort rested on action packed adventures, swashbucklers we call them, and enormous special effects.

But what about story?

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