Category: Anjuelle Floyd Author Blog
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Of Writing, Cinema, and What Only Books Can Provide…
Hay-on-Wye Cinema Bookshop “If books merely convey plots and characters why in the age of cinema read a book? What can books give us that movies can’t? In two words: beautiful writing?“ —Peter Selgin, 179 Ways to Save a Novel: Matters of Vital Concern to Fiction Writers I diligently pondered this question while working my…
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Of Reversals, Plausible Endings and the Artistry of Thwarting Expectations…
“A successful resolution thwart the our expectation; it doesn’t (fully) satisfy them.”—-Peter Selgin, 179 Ways to Save a Novel: Matters of Vital Concern to Fiction Writers Reversals sit at the heart of a successful resolution. And since novels consist of a continual list of crises fostered by a string of obstacles, both physical and human…
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Of Writing, Integrity and The Company We Keep…
“When we set out to judge—ridicule pillory, condemn, sneer at or…impugn our characters–we fail at our objective. Instead of making our characters look bad we make ourselves suspect.” —-Peter Selgin, 179 Ways to Save a Novel: Matters of Vital Concern to Fiction Writers We are known by the company we keep. In the case of…
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Hesitancy, Drawing at The Musée Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, and Honoring the Imagination of Our Hearts…
Today, and with my youngest child, I visited The Musée Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, otherwise known as The Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Brussels in Belgium. Immediately upon entering the lower lobby she spied a life drawing class offered free to anyone who wanted to participate. A model stood posed on a stage…
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Of Plot, Authenticity, and Knowing Who We Are…
“A story should generate it’s own actions and emotions organically…A story should be authentic…made of stuff that has never been appropriated from other forms of narrative art…other stories…movies or television. Or it has it should be sufficiently re-processed through the author’s unique sensibilities so the resulting work has its own authenticity.” –Peter Selgin, 179 Ways…
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Uncertainty, Destination, and the Need to Know…
We are ruled by uncertainty. The need to know shapes our motives, what we ask for, desire, fear and seek to claim. And so it is in writing that we encounter a somewhat safe haven. The writer has a general idea of the destination of her or his story if not, how it shall end.…