Tag: emotions
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So You Want to Write a Story: Where Does Your Story Take Place?
The setting of a novel addresses where the story takes place, location, but also the time period wherein the change of events occurs. Setting and time period are important dimensions to a story. In many stories they act as additional characters.
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The Suffering of Our Protagonist
The word protagonist is rooted in the word agony, pain, and suffering. Protagonist means principal, or leading character. Good stories depict a central character in struggle, usually a fight for her or his life on some level. Memorable stories depict this main character rising above their pain oftentimes by helping others.
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Thrity Umrigar and the Timeless Tapestries of Her Stories
I discovered Thrity Umrigar last year when I read “The Space Between Us“. It’s a wonderful novel about what the title states, the space between us, us being a well-educated Parsi mother and widow Sera Dubash, and her poor, illiterate housekeeper, Bhima.