Tag: epiphany
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Of Love, Dreams and Waking Up…
“Love is one long sweet dream and marriage is the alarm clock.” BLOOM OF LOVE on Twitter When reading this on Twitter I immediately thought of how living so closely with someone, waking up to them next to you when your breath does not carry the aroma you would like to hit your nose, never…
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Of Illusions, Diamonds, and The Imago Dei…
Crises consist of many obstacles, the least of which include illusions, and deceptions. Illusions held about life, and deceptions by others, and self fiercely clung to often comprise the nets limiting awareness. Reaching the peak of crisis, and fighting the battle that awaits requires perseverance and remaining focused on the task at hand. Doing so…
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Dear John, A Daughter’s Wish and Moments of Awakening…
My daughter recently stated that she hopes that my husband and I live to a ripe old age and that we die together, much like Noah and Allie in the movie based on The Notebook, by Nicholas Sparks. My daughter had just finished reading Spark’s novel, now a movie, Dear John. That’s the great thing…
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Of Clarity and Understanding, Guide and Map, Epiphany and Plot…
Reaching that point where the protagonist has made the change, we, as writers feel differently. We see the world of our novel from another level. Ideally we come to hold those dimensions of personality regarding our central character(s) come in greater clarity and understanding. And yet this is also a place where we can get…
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Of Avataric Moments, Desire, and Change
Symbols link yearning and desire with the change and transformation required for the central character to achieve her or his goal. To the extent that you can attach a physical object to the goal your central character fights to attain, the more you solidify, in the mind of the reader, the experience of your protagonist…
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So You Want to Write a Story: Where the Action Is
Once you have established the general place and time of a novel there remains the specifics of where the majority of action takes place. Eager to supply a healthy amount of action and avoid writing a stagnant and boring read, young writers often craft a story that holds a infinitesimal number of places where the…
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The Courage to Dance and Write
Writers dance with our characters. The words we write are the music delivering rhythm by which our feet move. The sentences and paragraphs that follow spin a melody, the context and situation wherein we in crafting our stories offer not only a depiction of transformation and change, but also the epiphany and transcendence of our…