Category: Anjuelle Floyd Author Blog
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Our Greatest Fear, Our Earnest Hope: To Love and Be Loved…
Love strengthens and transforms. It also frightens. Experiencing love, true unadulterated and unconditional love, freely given soothes us in places long hardened over time by insults and wounds inflicted in the flesh and to our character and emotions. Love and acceptance despite and because of who we are, faults, shortcomings, warts and all exhumes not…
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Art, The Muse and Beholding The Other…
The Muse then is that most terrified of all the virgins. She starts if she hears a sound, pales if you ask her questions, spins and vanishes if you disturb her dress. We might start off by paraphrasing Oscar Wilde’s poem, substituting the world “Art” for “Love.” Art will fly if held too lightly. Art…
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Of Turning Points, Disclosures and Amplifying Conflict…
Revelations in a novel not only reveal character, but also ideally raise the stakes, up the ante, so-to-speak, which ultimately intensifies conflict. The opening revelation and/or those of the first chapters of a novel establish the chaos that has befallen your protagonist, i.e. display the problem she or he is facing. Disclosures during the middle…
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The Muse, Mystery and Grace…
“It isn’t easy. Nobody has ever done it consistently. Those who try hardest, scare it off into the woods. Those who turn their backs and saunter along, whistling softly between their teeth, hear it treading quietly behind them, lured by a carefully acquired disdain. We are speaking, of course, of The Muse.” –Ray Bradbury, Zen…
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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 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,…