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Protected: Of Grinding Pepper, Banalities, and Seeking That Which We Yet Understand…
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Of Revelation, Illusions and the Parallel Processes of Writing and Discovery…
Revelation plays an important role in constructing and/or assembling the middle section of a novel. Revelation also encompasses the uncovering of truth of what has always stood present, but remained hidden by strong held illusions and beliefs. Stories and novels stand upon revelations, ones that sustain the cause-and-effect events that comprise, most particularly, the plot…
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Of Setting, Change, Action, and Dilemmas…
What creates setting, both physical and emotional? And what goes into creating a setting that stimulates a reader to feel? What is the challenge of creating a formative and transformative setting? What needs to remain static and constant in a setting? And what needs to cry out for change? These questions point out the importance…
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Of Revelations, Redemption and Grace…
The greatest revelation in a novel often comes, quite understandably, during the end. The context in which this occurs involves releasing underlying knowledge, all of which provides the stage upon where the ultimate truth of everyone’s motives comes forth. Protagonists that draw on our senses and emotions not only face tough dilemmas and challenges they…
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Of Turning Points, Disclosures and Amplifying Conflict…
Revelations in a novel not only reveal character, but also ideally raise the stakes, up the ante, so-to-speak, which ultimately intensifies conflict. The opening revelation and/or those of the first chapters of a novel establish the chaos that has befallen your protagonist, i.e. display the problem she or he is facing. Disclosures during the middle…
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Motion, Identification and The Inertial Frame of Reference…
“Everything moves. Everything …motion is just a manifestation of going from one spot to another spot in space. When we are trying to understand motion all of the things that we measure from have to come from an inertial frame of reference. An inertial frame of reference is a reference frame that is moving at…
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Of Strategizing, Pawns and Plotting…
Playing the game of chess demands that individuals strategize their moves. To accomplish this each player must think ahead, considering what character or pieces they can move upon the chessboard, and to what square, empty or filled by one the opponent’s characters, and then the various moves their opponent can make in response.