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Of Dilemmas, Alice in Wonderland, and Shifts in Consciousness…

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There comes a time in every story or novel when the main character stands in the midst of her or his dilemma like Alice does in Wonderland.

The protagonist ponders, How do present circumstances differ from my immediate past?

This place, like that of Alice in her wondrous, and yet frightening Wonderland sits between the time of order in the life of the main character, then shaken by chaos and the present time of having begun the journey towards adapting to the change required by the moment of upheaval and the need to survive.

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Of Character Shifts, Balloon Boy and Well-Meaning Friends…

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Entering the meat of a novel offers revelation after revelation. Personalities come forth, shift and recede into the murky lands from which they emerged. Characters shift positions in an effort to hold honor to, if not find their authentic identity. Perceptions change. The child of truth and wisdom forged by time and circumstance relays the

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Of Long Weekends, Discipline and Time for Dreaming…

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This past weekend was a holiday weekend. I relish long weekends. They give me more time with my husband and children.

The greatest challenge of any writer is finding enough time.

Time to write and time with family and friends.

The true writer writes. She or he doesn’t talk or dream about writing.

They develop a discipline unique to their psyche and life structure that allows for the writing, crafting, revision and ultimate completion of a story or novel.

Each stage of creating a literary work requires time. Time given to the very writing and re-writing of the piece, and then there is the time given over to gestation, allowing our ideas and words to percolate and perhaps metamorphose.

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Of Cause and Effect, Twin Universes, and Sacrifice…

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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 the action and reaction quality representative of midsection of novels, the heart and lungs of the story.

Causality-and-build by its very words points to the uphill movement of the story towards crisis and climax that involves story and character arc.

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Of Borderlands, Willingness and Shifts in Consciousness…

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Leaving the world as it is, and entering the border between the world as it was, and presently exists in the newly leveraged chaos of change requires courage and faith. It also asks for willingness to acknowledge that one has entered the unknown.

Like our protagonists, each time we venture to write a new story or novel we exit the comfort zone of what we have accomplished, and depart once more into that land of yearning and desire.

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Of Life, Physicality and Stories…

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Much of the ability to write compelling fiction comes from the willingness to sink one’s teeth into the substance of life, or that, which flows out of life.

Conversations, kind smiles, tilts of the head can reveal joy, simmering sadness, or the ache of a heart playing upon a crafted smile.

These are the human actions reflective of life and living that writers notice and expand upon either by writing a story or novel or tucking them away for later use in describing the response or motion of a character in the heat of conflict or a reverie of emotions stimulated by a memory.

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Radio Show | Author, Electa Rome Parks

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Electa Rome Parks discusses her roles as mother and writer, what she hopes to leave her children, and her upcoming and fifth novel, “Diary of a Stalker“. Electa is the author of The Ties that Bind, Loose Ends, Almost Doesn’t Count, and Ladies Night Out. She is also a contributor to, These Are My Confessions.

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