Tag: evolution
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Of Life, Revelations, and Our Differences That Bind …
Not a day has passed during the three weeks since posting my last blog that I have not felt guilty for failing to hold to my schedule of blogging. It is a promise I give to myself, and a responsibility I maintain as a published writer. The nagging feeling that has haunted me now abates…
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Of Breaths, Challenges and Handing Over the Reins…
“…[M]others and daughters can have a close bond, but should never take it to the level of being best friends…” say Susan Morris Shaffer and Linda Perlman Gordon, co-authors of Too Close for Comfort: Questioning the Intimacy of Today’s New Mother-Daughter Relationship. “A best friend is different than a mother-daughter relationship,” says Shaffer in her…
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The Writer, Narrative, and Evolution…
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…
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Of Perseverance, Remaining Open, and Characters that Embody Our Change…
Perseverance in completing that first draft it the first act of embarking on the journey of evolution we undergo each time we craft a story. Thus we focus our energies and concentration on towards typing each word so that we might complete each sentence, craft every paragraph, shape each scene. At this time, we, the…
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Of Cause and Effect, Twin Universes, and Sacrifice…
The protagonist’s decision to act constitutes a cornerstone moment in the life a novel. It signifies the shift from the beginning or set-up of the novel to the middle characterized as a process of action and reaction, better known as cause-and-effect. Still others term this area of the novel, and quite aptly, causality-and-build. Cause-and-effect emphasizes…