Tag: goal
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Of Queens, Personalities, Wishes and Desires…
In chess, the Queen stands to the right of the King. Her major job is that of protecting the King. The dilemma of preventing the King’s capture rests upon the Queen’s head. As such the Queen’s movements are central to winning the game of chess. Establishing the major dilemma or problem in a story is…
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Of Rooks, Guardians of the Threshold and Boundaries…
The chess piece or character known as The Rook, which is also called The Castle or as I like to say, The Tower can move as many spaces along a row or column on the chessboard. The Rooks (each player has 2) combined with The Queen, form the major chess pieces. In this way they…
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Of Spirals, Parking Garages, and Points of Entry and Identification…
The road that led your protagonist away at the opening of your novel or story brings her or him home again during the final stage, but at a new level of awareness. And since time has moved forward, while the central character has been gone, we could entitle the journey, Back to the Future and…
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Of Spirals, Parking Garages, and Points of Entry and Identification…
The road that took the protagonist away, during the final stage of the novel, brings her or him home again, but at a new level of awareness. And since time has moved forward, while the central character has been gone, we could entitle the journey, Back to the Future and Home Again. The central character…
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Of Romance, Truth, and Purging the Hidden Pools of Consciousness…
Many things can happen during the approach towards the heart of a story, or novel, both for the protagonist, and the writer. The blossoming flower of romance provides a mainstay in many stories that tug and keep open the hearts and minds of readers, wherein new possibilities enter for them to ponder both in the…
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Of Intermediate Regions, Hunger and Thirst…
There stands an intermediate region in the life and structure of a novel, that place between crossing the border of the opening and beginning and entering into a series of actions that lead to the penultimate center of the journey. It lies between the edge of that vast new world of survival that constitutes the…
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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…