Tag: fears
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Mentor and Story
Mentors are the wisdom-carriers in stories. They infect the protagonist or major character with knowledge and information needed to complete their quest. Mentors encourage the heroine or hero to believe, and have faith in her or his ability to meet the challenge standing before them. On a psycho-spiritual level mentors represent the Imago Dei, the…
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Déjà Vu: Writing Exercise # 97
The self-doubt of our internal pacman says, “You can’t,” when it comes to achieving our goals, and certainly not in the way, and at the quality that we hope. Mixed with our general fears about life, and living pacman overpowers us, and our ideas, and ostensibly contaminates our process of creativity.
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Our Characters’ Fears
Identifying our character’s fears is like uncovering the groundswell of what drives her or him to act and speak as she or he does in order to accomplish their larger goals. On another level it’s like discovering why we feel compelled to write.
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Spiritual Awakening: Every Story is a Journey
Good stories and novels thrive on conflict and tension. All are headed for a climax, an arc, the mountain top experience of transformation. And yet the writer must travel in the opposite direction, deep within her or himself, to cull out the true meaning that supports and belies the words and actions of our protagonist…