Tag: mind
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Protected: Of Breaking Rules, Fundamentals and Salvation …
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Of Books, Tension, and The Mind on the Page…
Presently I am reading Anuradha Roy’s novel, An Atlas of Impossible Longing . As with any good novel, interactions between the main characters are strained. Tension abounds, but not in a melodramatic way. The story moves with a nice speed for an opening. I look forward each evening–a hallmark that I have found a jewel…
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Of Mars in Cancer, Courts of Change, and Travels…
Every story is like a court case wherein we, the author, like an attorney, tries a case of our protagonist. Who is on trial? Is your protagonist the defendant or the plaintiff seeking judgment and damages for a wrong committed upon her or him? If she or his had been wronged then what was the…
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Of Blogs, The Umbilical Cord, and the Internet…,
Connecting with the godhead, that part of the divine that lives within all, the Imago Dei, coalesces the disparate parts of the soul, mind and brokenness of heart and spirit. Writing or revising and editing this part of a story or novel can and often dispenses healing to the writer whose words later transmit this…
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Of Crises, Experience and Goals…
Surviving a crisis bestows special knowledge garnered and held by few. It also grants admittance into various orders of wisdom yielded by experience. Every novel or story a writer crafts tells the life of a certain crisis, and chronicles a central character’s survival of that crisis. The process of writing that novel flows out of…