Anjuelle Floyd

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  • The Treasure of Reading for Discovery

    The Treasure of Reading for Discovery

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    “Responding to the writing, first at a reader.” That is what author and writing coach, Elizabeth Stark provides the writers, and published authors she coaches. Having earned a MFA in Writing, and seen her novel, “Shy Girl,” published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in addition to having taught creative writing at Hobart and William Smith…

  • So You Want to Write a Story: What’s At Stake?

    So You Want to Write a Story: What’s At Stake?

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    Establishing what is at stake for the protagonist of your story is essential for grasping and holding a reader’s attention. Addressing and making clear the risks your major character faces, and doing this early on in a novel engages the reader towards caring for the major character.

  • So You Want to Write a Novel: Obstacles

    So You Want to Write a Novel: Obstacles

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    Every good story needs an interesting and compelling character, centered in a riveting set of events that force her or him to reveal their best, and worst qualities. What do we call these set of events that push and prod the major character to show her or his mettle, their tenacious and persevering personality? Obstacles.

  • Brainstorming

    Brainstorming

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    Corporations brainstorm to uncover new ideas. They even take employees on retreats and oftentimes pay psychologists and artist incredible amounts of money to stimulate and present ways in which employees can think out of the box. Why then do writers and authors not give ourselves more time to daydream and brainstorm into planning our stories?

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