tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-909081134178524582024-03-14T00:44:08.045-07:00Write With ImpactMarcy Weydemullerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14708981498093209688noreply@blogger.comBlogger448125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90908113417852458.post-44125619931062413892019-06-29T04:00:00.000-07:002019-06-29T04:00:02.085-07:00Write with Impact: Thank You<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="color: #353535; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt;">THANK YOU!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #353535; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I have so appreciated all your
interest and feedback over these past few years as I’ve posted my writing
workshops on the blog as a free version while I revised and edited and listened
to your questions and suggestions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #353535; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Since Words with Impact is the
final in the series I am going to close down the writing blog. Hopefully I will
be able to get the rest of the workbooks up on Amazon soon to join the three
that are now published.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #353535; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In the meantime if you have any
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<span style="color: #353535; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Continue to Read Deep, marcy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Workshop: Discover
Words That Sing<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“All this time the
Guard was looking at her, first through a telescope, then through a microscope,
and then through an opera-glass.”</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Lewis Carroll</div>
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Alice does not change being Alice despite the various ways
in which she is being observed, but the perception of her is altered by the
method by which the Guard chooses to see her.</div>
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Just as images and word pictures feed our imagination
through metaphors, so can a study of map-making enlarge and enrich our
connections with the places we inhabit. In his book, the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Geographer’s Art</i>, Peter Haggett says that, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“If the historian uses mirrors to look back and the physicist uses
mirrors to look forward, then the geographer’s use of the mirror analogy lies
in a different dimension—that of space.”</i></div>
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What exactly do we see in that space regionally and
historically? Are places mapped by linear distance as in a conventional map or
by spatial configuration? </div>
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Haggett gives an example from a vacation he once took at a
lakeside village nestled in the Austrian mountains. As he traveled back and
forth across the lake by boat he realized that the lakeside did not quite
measure up to the conventional map. Some routes he took were fast routes and
others slow. Which speed was taken would influence the map form or scale of the
lake. He put together four different sketches to try to determine how nine
locations reflected or related to the lake itself based on: distance, time of
journey, cost of journey and frequency of service. He concluded that each map
showed a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“different aspect of the spatial
structure of this settlement.”</i></div>
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His experiment on vacation opened up a whole new outlook on
how maps can measure location and identity of place.</div>
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Today we can click our computers for directions and are
given a choice to find a destination by conventional map, or street view or
aerial. Why do we choose which version we do? How does your character approach
space in his world? Why does it matter what she sees?</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Action Steps:<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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1. Visit a favorite place of your
own where you like to sit and watch the view. Take a pair of binoculars and a
magnifying glass. Pick one focused spot and look at it intently for a few
minutes each time using first your own natural sight and then each of these
lenses.</div>
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2. Write down the differences you
see with each one.</div>
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Share: Did you see something you’ve never noticed before?
Can you adapt the experience for your character?</div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Read deep, marcy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my
motto.”</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mark Twain</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Workshop: Discover
Words That Sing<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“For some minutes
Alice stood without speaking, looking out in all directions over the country –
and a most curious country it was… ‘I declare it’s marked out just like a large
chessboard!’”</i> Lewis Carroll</div>
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There is a geography app game for children (and adults) that
help to learn about world countries. Three sections ask questions such as
language or landmarks or capitals, and then there is another that is by shape
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Two things surprised me while playing with my five-year-old
grandson. One, how much I’d forgotten about world geography factually, and two,
that it was almost impossible for me to identify a country based on shape only.
However after playing the game only a few times, my grandson had almost instant
recall on all the shapes and a high percentage of recall on flags. Whenever it
was my turn he cheerfully showed me the right answers. The game had become a
mutual teaching opportunity, as I in turn helped share with the capitals. At
least I had one high area to succeed in.</div>
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<br /></div>
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The ability to step back and see the landscape through an
unexpected image opens up a flow of possible thematic and plot ideas that might
not have occurred otherwise. It gives us a chance to stop and play again with
our creativity, especially as we move deeper in the middle of the story, which
sometimes becomes sluggish and difficult to navigate. </div>
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<br /></div>
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Twists and turns, ragged edges and soft flowing lines turn
into new metaphors, new possibilities, and new connotations to explore. What
symbolism can we apply to a land that is shaped like a chessboard, or a stone
dragon, or a blue marble? How can we turn them into theme types?</div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Action Steps:<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;">
1. Take different portions of the
map you are using for your setting whether a full world or a small town. Make
copies. Then ignore all the names and usual details and instead find shapes
within in. Draw random lines around them.</div>
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2. Color-code them.</div>
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3. Or draw a shape over a section
of the map and then look closely to see what is highlighted within that
section. Color-code the new details.</div>
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<br /></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Share: </i>What
perspective or theme or metaphor did you discover in your map world by seeing
it as shape only.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Read deep, marcy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Workshop: Discover
Words That Sing<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Of course the first
thing to do was to make a grand survey of the country she was going to travel
through. ‘It’s something very like learning geography,’ thought Alice,…” </i>Lewis
Carroll</div>
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<br /></div>
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Last week we looked at the image concept of a threshold as a
decision of choice. But a <i><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Threshold </span></i><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">can also be
used as a typology for a crossing, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">which
can include walking away from a place, or a relationship, or choosing to no
longer be who we were a few minutes earlier. Often that moment of decision
become a life metaphor or signpost. </span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">A threshold
can also be developed as a <i>Commitment.</i> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Just as we plot out a map to a new location, this category requires
taking a deliberate step of faith. We are not forced. We choose with as much
insight as possible, even with an unknown outcome. Sometimes the decision is
plotted out ahead of time, and sometimes it’s spur of the moment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But we accept the potential
consequences before we act.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Alice follows the rabbit
down the hole even though the crossing feels as if she’s in a dream. Her
curiosity overrides the penalty she fully expects for wandering away. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Consider a character’s rationalization in a space movie when someone
who has never traveled through a time warp has to choose to get "beamed
up.” Their career is in the line and that desire to be a part of exploration
and discovery is strong enough to squash legitimate concerns.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Do you know anyone who manages to get into an airplane when terrified
of flying? What makes the person choose--commit to this action?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Or go backwards. A person refuses to cross the threshold and is held
in her immediate sphere, much like phobias trap people, such as agoraphobia.
How does a life get mapped out that is restricted by fear?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">And yet sometimes choosing a restricted boundary line can be freeing creatively.
Emily Dickinson lived a reclusive life. The majority of her poems only became
know after her death when her sister discovered the extensive works.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Action Steps:<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;">
1. Make a list of your character’s
fears from childhood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then put her
in a situation where she has the opportunity to change it. </div>
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<br /></div>
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2. What steps does she take?</div>
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<br /></div>
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3. When does she hesitate? </div>
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<br /></div>
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4. What gives her the ability to
push ahead?</div>
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<br /></div>
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Share: Which question was the most difficult to develop?
Why?</div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Read deep, marcy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Workshop: Discover
Words That Sing<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Thresholds are
necessary in the creative process in giving an idea somewhere to go.”</i> Tim
Wynne-Jones </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Themes <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Earlier in Deepen Vocabulary we looked at some ways we can influence
our words with ambiguity like crossing a threshold. Here we’re looking at
thresholds as an example of conveying image symbols with almost silent
connections that undergird themes like the web threads without being as direct.
Themes can often become a silent and powerful tool for typology impact through
questions and choices and possibilities. Whether the purpose is for one scene
only or an ongoing thread it invites personal participation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do we open the locked
door at the end of the spider-coated hallway? Are we ready to hear the words
written in the old manuscripts found buried under the house? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">When Eve saw that the tree God had forbidden, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“was desirable to make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate; and
she gave it also to her husband with her, and he ate.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Pandora
couldn’t contain her curiosity and opened the box. “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Out flew every kind of disease and sickness, hate and envy, and all the
bad things that people had never experienced before. Pandora slammed the lid
closed, but it was too late.” </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Both these
women were well warned before they succumbed to temptation, but what about the
times there are no clear directions. We have good reason to hesitate before the
unknown.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When do we need courage
to resist a threshold, because the consequences are beyond our control and
could bring great suffering, or risk stepping into the unknown to bring light
into darkness?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">If Lucy had
not opened the door at the back of the wardrobe and discovered Narnia, she and
her siblings would not have been instrumental in breaking the White Witch’s
spell. By willingly entering the Beast’s palace, Belle breaks the curse.
Hercule Poirot follows every lead possible until he can bring a culprit to
justice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Change, no matter how small, can create mental and emotional chaos as
you turn into a different direction, physically or emotionally. To cross a
threshold though requires a choice, even if it has been forced upon you like a
refugee fleeing his war torn land. All sensory memory is heightened and
sharpened. It is not just the moment that is at stake, but the journey that
follows it. Thresholds become part of our soul shadows as much as our physical
bodies cast their shadow. And the question can linger. “Did I choose the right
fork in the road?” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Action Steps:<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;">
<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">1. Look at the literal thresholds in
your character’s daily world and choose one to explore as a figurative
threshold.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">2. Think of ways they could become a
life-changing threshold for your character: doors, windows, cupboards, gardens,
railroads, or books. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">3. And/or </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">put your character into a moment of choice. Overwrite all
the sensory details in the initial draft. Then write up the brief scene twice,
once for each possible decision: to flee or fight, or to submit the accepted
dogma either socially or personally.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Share: What main theme connection did you choose? Why?</div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Read deep, marcy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Workshop: Discover
Words That Sing<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">“The poet—when he is writing—is a
priest; the poem is a temple; epiphanies and communion take place within it.”</span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"> Denise Levertov<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Genre Typology
Threads<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
One definition of an epiphany is that it is a moment of
revelation or insight. As we saw earlier symbol webs can strengthen genres
through a variety of image styles. Readers often lean towards one or two genre
styles because of the insight they want to explore for themselves. We also have
our favorite style or depth within those choices as well. Both a cozy mystery
and a psychological thriller give insight into a murderous revelation, but the
details and the descriptions of each will be very different.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
As readers we lean towards the subjects and styles where we
want to discover or understand the revelation the story unfolds. Symbols,
images, concepts, and themes can be expanded both in a genre style and or as a
thread borrowed from one genre to another to give a fresh view. And a very
ordinary situation can be developed into a very different perspective like the
shifting mirrors we saw earlier.</div>
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<br /></div>
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For example: sometimes we don’t need to search for mystery.
It can happen during an ordinary day. The unexpected happens, either positively
or negatively, shifting our perspective into a whole new direction. Suddenly
the ground shifts out and the familiar, the foundation, is cracked opening into
a world we do not know and cannot understand. </div>
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<br /></div>
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Choices follow. Do we get out a flashlight and investigate
the new terrain, however hesitantly, or hide away and hope the world tilts back
to normal in the morning? Perhaps a little of both enables ourselves, and our
characters, to cope with sudden change.</div>
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<br /></div>
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In the movie <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Larry Crowne</i>,
when he is called into the office for a special meeting, Larry confidently
expects to receive yet another employee reward. Instead he is fired for a
supposed lack of education. Which is a total mystery to him. He grew up in an
era when high-school education was the only requirement and work experience
became the criteria for advancement and evaluation. Now none of it is
considered valid? When and how did the life rules change? Or did they really?</div>
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<br /></div>
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Although still in shock, Larry begins to build a new life
trying to adapt to a new culture for him—college. Like a young child entering
the world of kindergarten everything is a mystery. Some days are extremely
difficult and bewildering. However he also embraces the unknown with curiosity,
changing not only his life but also those around him—especially his worn out,
jaded instructor. He finds a way to blend his past and present into a rich
discovery.</div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Action Steps:<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;">
1. Even if you do not have a
mystery in your novel choose a situation to become a mini-mystery parable with
long reaching significance.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;">
2. Pick a scene where your
character is pressed for time. Make a list of possible obstacles, such as a flat
tire. Have a good ‘helper’ come alongside to assist, but keeps making the
situation worse.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;">
3. Then, when your character
finally reaches his goal, he realizes that the interference saved him in some
way—maybe from a huge embarrassment. How does that change his perspective on
his frustration?</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Share: What common question became a typology thread? Was
there one word or concept that could be developed into several angles?</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Read deep, marcy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<!--EndFragment--><br />Marcy Weydemullerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14708981498093209688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90908113417852458.post-82678080080082480912019-06-21T04:00:00.000-07:002019-06-21T04:00:16.948-07:00Words With Impact: Discern Typology Character
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Workshop: Discover
Words That Sing<o:p></o:p></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Chart how each symbol
you use changes over the course of the story.”</i> John Truby</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Character Typology<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Does this character description remind you of anyone in
particular?</div>
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<br /></div>
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-on top of the power hierarchy but
his power is not boundless</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;">
-can be still be opposed,
deceived, and tricked although dangerous to do so</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;">
-in a long term marriage but has
endless affairs</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;">
-does not participate in petty
arguments and schemes of daily activities</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;">
-can be extremely vengeful</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; text-indent: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Based on familiar movies, my first response might be a
dictator or a CEO of a vast financial/business empire, or a James Bond 007
villain. But these are some of the characteristics given in Greek mythology to
Zeus. Somehow they still sound quite modern. Truby notes that the character
Tracy Lord in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Philadelphia Story</i>
can be compared to a goddess, not only because of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">her beauty and grace but also her coldness and fierce sense of
superiority to others.”<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Each genre also has its own special qualities for heroes. A
place to begin might be to list what you consider to be heroic qualities. Are
you looking for a Batman or a John Wayne, or is your hero a parent who shows up
every day. What do you consider to be the difference between a hero and a role
model? These questions will help you decide where to look for the ‘types’ that
will best flavor your novel with the right added depth whether you are looking
in characters, plots, or setting.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Action Steps:<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Example: In New
Testament scriptures Peter was named the Rock, and the promise given that
Christ’s church would be build upon him. In ancient Israel a strong foundation
meant a rock foundation, both for the Temple of worship and for any military
protective walls. Peter’s new name as symbol echoed his past history and
bridged into his new character and role.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From modern
culture, Rocky Balboa does not seem to fit his name at the beginning of his
story but like Peter grew into it. What traits did he build upon to become his
name?</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Make a list of your character’s traits, positive
and negative.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Note where the change points are. Choose one and
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<br /></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
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<br /></div>
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Share: Did you discover more positive or negative options?
Did any surprise you?</div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Read deep, marcy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<!--EndFragment--><br />Marcy Weydemullerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14708981498093209688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90908113417852458.post-68917694202998770922019-06-20T04:00:00.000-07:002019-06-20T04:00:02.023-07:00Words With Impact: Discern Typology Introduction
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Workshop: Discover
Words That Sing<o:p></o:p></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“That old fossil,
those old bones, walk again, and sing and dance and speak with a new tongue.
The old stories bridge the centuries.” </i>Jane Yolen</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Typology<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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There are several opinions as to how many plot patterns
there are for stories and how they can be interpreted. However the very basic
two are considered to be 1) the hero or heroine leaves town, or 2) a stranger
comes to town. It is quite amazing to see how many stories and movies fit into
these types. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
But just as these two plot structures can be repeated
several times, and in several ways, they are not a formula. Yet they can be
considered a typology in that every reader or viewer has an immediate
connection to the premise. The frame might be an old story but it has the
capacity to bridge the centuries regardless of genre.</div>
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<br /></div>
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The characters, phrases and patterns we internalize through
our personal histories, literature, scriptures, folk-tales, songs and culture
continue to add mythic depth in our reading and our writing. We make ‘copies’
of the original typology and pass them on through the generations. Some become
so familiar that they enter into everyday language as common metaphors or
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Terrible sea incidents become tied to Poseidon allusions or
flood. Rainbows are considered a sign of promise around the world. Black holes
immediately spell danger. So does Godzilla, regardless of the language being
spoken. </div>
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<br /></div>
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We use a modern version of typology when we give social
references. “They’re calling her the new Marilyn Monroe.” The allusion of
course is toward the actresses’ public personae and probably has no basis in
comparison to either personality. </div>
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<br /></div>
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Or one friend introduces another at her party. She confides,
“Watch out for that one—he’s a flirt. Stay away from that one—he’s a wolf.” In
a shorthand version the explanations are clear. With the flirt type no one gets
hurt if you play by his rules, however, with the wolf type there are no rules.
One gives an impression of harmless fun whereas the other is a predator. Little
Red Riding Hood stories have grown cute over the years but the early versions
are quite disturbing with strong undercurrents of sexual danger. Were medieval
mothers trying to protect their young daughters from men in powerful positions,
lord of the manor types, and so used the metaphor of familiar dangerous, hungry
wolves that prowled their forests in the winter as the warning?</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Action Steps:<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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1. Choose two of your favorite
movies and keep track of all the familiar and unfamiliar types you identify
with—whether setting or character traits or story plot.</div>
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<br /></div>
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2. Compare in what way they copy
something in your own life or experience or imagination.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Share: Did any particular image or reflection surprise you?</div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Read deep, marcy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Workshop: Discover
Words That Sing<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Imagination decides
everything.”</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Blaise
Pascal</div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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Animator Tezuka Osamu’s images, themes and stories that he
worked with came from the heart. It showed through his choice of topics and the
manner in which he developed his films. Some techniques he had to let go of
because he couldn’t find enough people skilled in the process, but he kept as
close to the passion of creating film by hand because <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I really wanted to keep the preciousness of the hand animation in the
work,” </i>he said. At the time his industry was undergoing a metamorphosis of
its own and Osamu felt that the original work of Japanese animation was
becoming imitative instead of original.</div>
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<br /></div>
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The story was fueled by the techniques and the techniques
enriched his storytelling. For example in his short film, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Legend of the Forest</i> with Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony Op.36,
he divided the story into four parts. And then each movement he animated in a
different style beginning with a basic form and adding more details and
complications with each transition. So alongside the legend he also visually
showed a development of animation without speaking about it at all. He embedded
the metaphors naturally.</div>
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<br /></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Perhaps the animation
can be supported by the passion of the creators.”<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<br /></div>
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It’s that passion that creates timelessness as well as
creativeness. Viewers today may find some of the imagery he uses odd or
old-fashioned; especially since now computer graphics have emerged in leaps and
bounds since his day. Which he also recognized as a growing field of
development. Yet we still can identify and relate to his metaphoric images because
he has grounded them in familiar circumstances.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Often we ourselves don’t recognize the metaphors in our work
during the early drafts but by nurturing the quality and technical craft of our
novels we will begin to recognize them. Then our use of image and metaphor,
allusion, theme, symbols, echoes will all have the naturalness of originality
instead of imitation too.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Action Steps:<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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1. Make a list of the words you’d
like readers to say about your novels? </div>
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<br /></div>
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2. Write down the themes you’d
like your readers to identify with in your novels.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Share: Which one would make your heart sing?</div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Read deep, marcy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Workshop: Discover
Words That Sing<o:p></o:p></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">“Celebrate what you want to see more
of.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thomas
J. Peters<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Last week we looked at how one word in a title, or as a
character summary, can be strengthened into a metaphor for a broader
understanding. But before you can even do that it’s important to know what are
your themes and your goals for your story. For example, one of Osamu’s goals
for his work was to include a touch of humor or irony, especially when dealing
with difficult topics. He felt that especially when he tried to show culture
out of control or present the idea that technology had the potential to become
unstoppable he would lean into irony. </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
In the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Tales of a
Street Corner</i> all the characters were developed with humor and pathos as war
came to their corner crashing into their lives. And showed those who remained
self-centered and those who grew into selfless actions, like the naughty little
mouse who tried to save the bear.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Another key word image for Osamu in creativity was joy and fun.
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“The fun of experimental animation is the
different perspectives people saw.”</i> He appreciated the unique insights his
audience had and in turn their comments often sparked new ideas for him to
pursue. He worked diligently to create quality work, but did not expect
everyone to see only his vision. Once his work released it went free. That is
the gift of metaphor in any work.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In his short
film <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mermaid</i> he explored potentially
closed thinking through <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“the story of a
boy from faraway lands that likes fantasies.”</i> The boy saw a mermaid.
Everyone else only saw a fish and went to great lengths to blast his idea of
out him. He too eventually saw the fish, but with Osamu’s tilt of angle the
last line went, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“But the boy did not
forget the mermaid.”<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Like a firecracker a familiar image might start off in plain
wrapping paper and then explode into showers of light.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Action Steps:<o:p></o:p></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;">
1. Read through a picture book the
next time you’re at the library or a bookstore but don’t read the words. Look
only at the visual background first. Then go back and read the story. How do
they complement each other? Does each page have a one-word tag? Funny, scary,
curious?</div>
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2. Now do a reverse action. Take
one of your chapter scenes and mark it off as if it were a picture book. Can
you identify a main image on each “page”?</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Share: Did you find an image that surprised you? Can you
develop it further as a thread without it being forced?</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Read deep, marcy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Workshop: Discover
Words That Sing <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I never make work
that is careless.”</i> Tezuka Osamu</div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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While discussing experimental animation during an interview
he gave during the 1960’s, Tezuka Osama explained that he desired to introduce
the good parts of Japanese animation to the world. He wanted it to be
understood internationally or globally. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I
would like to convey big messages to the world,”</i> he said. So he began to
make pieces for an international audience so that others would understand and
care.</div>
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<br /></div>
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To convey his messages of animation and life, culture, humor
and irony he worked with familiar images drawn from universal theme and
experience. He built upon common ground to engage his viewers, and then angled
the image or the expectation of the story in a way that it became a fresh
insight and a means of communication. He thoroughly enjoyed the different
perspectives that people saw after viewing his style of experimentation.</div>
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The titles he chose also provided an introduction to his
images and concepts: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Jump,</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Memory</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mermaid</i>, and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Legend of the
Forest</i>, showing a wide range of topics and idea grist. Often we forget that
our titles are as valuable as the metaphor images themselves. Titles,
characters, music, and images all intertwined as metaphor in his animation.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Here is Osamu’s list of characters (images) for his short
film, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Tales of a Street Corner.</i></div>
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<br /></div>
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According to the caption these are the people who live at
this corner. Note their variety.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>:
a friendly girl and a teddy bear</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>:
a naughty mouse</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>:
a plant with seeds</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>:an
old street light</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>:
a street Punk “Moth”</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>:
a woman on a poster </div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>:
a young violinist on a poster</div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Action Steps:<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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1. Choose two of these characters
and make up a sketch of them even if you are a stick figure artist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Like me)</div>
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2. Then from your interpretation
choose a word image or metaphor as their main personality characteristic. </div>
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<br /></div>
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Share: Whom did you choose? Why? What is your word metaphor
for them?</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Read deep, marcy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Workshop: Discover
Words That Sing<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“That old fossil,
those old bones, walk again, and sing and dance and speak with a new tongue.
The old stories bridge the centuries.” </i>Jane Yolen</div>
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<br /></div>
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Taking your basic threads and extending them throughout your
story can build strong web imagery regardless of genre. Some will be an almost
invisible backdrop and then there are some genres that build their stories
around a basic practical web that their readers will expect.</div>
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<br /></div>
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In addition to universal symbols, allusion and echoes, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“there are also prefabricated symbols whose
meaning the audience understands immediately at some level of conscious
thought,” </i>says Truby, and they are seen quite clearly in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“highly metaphoric genres”</i> that have
honed objects in their forms, such as fantasy, horror, and Western.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Even acknowledging that symbols are always ambiguous to some
degree the symbols in these categories also represent something within the
hero.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here is his example list for
a ‘Myth Symbol Web’.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Journey</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Labyrinth</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Garden</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Tree</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Animals</div>
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Ladder</div>
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Underground</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Talisman</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
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Think of a fantasy novel you’ve read. How many of these word
symbols do you recall being present—if not in common form, what about as
concept?</div>
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<br /></div>
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A Mystery Web is another category where readers have
specific expectations that they look forward to puzzling out.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Crime</div>
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Motive</div>
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Setting</div>
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Sleuth</div>
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Victim</div>
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Villain</div>
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Suspect Characters</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Clues/Red Herrings</div>
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<br /></div>
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Every genre—every story—has its own web style whether seen
or hidden. Movies often explore deep underlying themes, which the viewers did
not necessarily notice at first glance. Ordinary images can create impact and
build bridges. </div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Action Steps:<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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1. Take your central theme for
your story and make a list of all the potential links where you could insert an
image that undergirds your premise.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;">
2. Make up your own category web
for this particular story.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Share: Were you surprised by any symbol theme or image you
chose for your web? Why?</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Read deep, marcy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Workshop: Discover
Words That Sing<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Natural worlds like
the island, mountains, forest and ocean have an inherent symbolic power. But
you can attach additional symbols to them to heighten or change the meaning
audiences normally associate with them.”</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John Truby</div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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Just as we have a variety of traits for our character to
keep them from being one-dimensional, so we also need to build a web of
symbols, says John Truby, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“in which each
symbol helps define the others.”</i> The symbols can be attached to the story
overall, the world setting, actions, theme, and characters to name a few. For
example, the story symbol unifies the story theme under one image. So it helps
to identify a central story image, or the single line that then connects all
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<br /></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“The Odyssey: The
central story symbol in the Odyssey is in the title itself. This is the long
journey that must be endured.”<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<br /></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Network: The network
is literally a television broadcasting company and symbolically a web that
traps all who are entangled in it. ”<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<br /></div>
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Once we identify the symbol that best unifies our story
under one image, then we look for ways to repeat it by varying the details in
some way. Look for categories, Truby says. One example he gives is from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Streetcar named Desire. <o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<br /></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Stanley is referred to
as a pig, a bull, an ape, a hound and a wolf to underscore his essentially
greedy, brutal and masculine nature. Blanche is connected to a moth and a bird,
fragile and frightened.”<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<br /></div>
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The variations may also be disparate actions but at the
heart all contain a common thread. For example, the movie <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Green Dragon</i> has an abundance of metaphoric symbols that on the
surface are not at first recognized as connected. However the common ground is
creativity built into everyday activities. </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
The staff sergeant takes photographs throughout the camp
setting to keep a record of the historical circumstances and of the people who
have been impacted. But it is through the photos that he himself comes to term
with his own secrets and need for healing. A young refugee woman sews, and an
elderly general plants a seed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An
orphaned refugee boy and an American volunteer cook paint a mural and find hope
in death. Each one finds a place of healing in creative actions.</div>
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<br /></div>
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The movie <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Avatar</i>
is an excellent study for the aspect of symbol connections within nature.
Within each of the natural settings is a combination of breathtaking beauty and
nail biting danger. Plus overlaying this exquisite world is a poisonous
atmosphere, at least for humans.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Another is the lovable WALL*E where instead of humanity
bringing rescue to a struggling world, they themselves are the ones in need of
rescue. Both these movies use familiar images that then turn viewer
expectations upside down and engage the audience into new perspectives.</div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Action Steps:<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;">
1. Choose a central story image
that undergirds your story theme.</div>
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<br /></div>
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2. Now write up a verbal word or a
visual image or music tone that could be a silent backdrop to the world
setting, specific actions, central theme, for both your main character and
another key character, whether they have a positive or negative purpose. </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Share: What has become your main premise that links all your
puzzle pieces?</div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Read deep, marcy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Workshop: Discover
Words That Sing<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“…symbol is the small
puzzle that works its magic deep below the surface.”</i> John Truby</div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Symbols as Images<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
As mentioned in the last section one way to build emotional
resonance is through art and music, which can reflect lost or forgotten
landscapes. When a character is in an unfamiliar external or internal
environment, music and or art can become a mirror, reflecting his or her
spiritual alliance to another place. It translates the character’s soul
landscape for them. Our words sing heart to heart.</div>
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<br /></div>
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John Ciardi, when defining imagery, states that, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“We think in pictures; when we put our
thoughts into words, it is natural and efficient to express them in figurative
language, or figures of speech.”</i> Like words, he says, images are used for
identification and for their emotional connotations<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Images also have
histories.” <o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<br /></div>
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Poet C. Day Lewis says <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the
nature of poetic sympathy is revealed in images</i>, whether in verse or prose.
He describes a concord between image and theme as the principle that organizes
and reveals. He quotes Rilke for a description of the imaginative process that
brings about ‘soul’ connections.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“‘Only when thy have turned to blood within
us’—first the sympathy that makes an object memorable; then the breadth of
experience to gather a multiplicity of memories; then the patience which allows
the memories to mature deep within, to form their associations, and to assume
the nature of images….”.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Those images in verse or prose also extend to other insights
with photographs and paintings, geographic settings, and music, towards overall
atmosphere. All contribute to build ongoing theme threads and analogies.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Action Steps:<o:p></o:p></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;">
1. Choose a song that is familiar
to you from your childhood. Hum the melody. What memories does it raise? </div>
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<br /></div>
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2. Now choose an instrument that
is familiar in your story world and give your character your emotions. Does it
give him strength or sorrow?</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Share: What special images from your past give you hope?</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Read deep, marcy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Workshop: Discover
Words That Sing<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Dance is the hidden
language of the soul”</i> Martha Graham</div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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To describe and implement symbols, images and typology, we
are looking for familiar touchstones to relate to whether in characters, words,
or patterns—plus the geography that connects whether literally as a highway, or
a road marked on a map. They open communication through all sensory responses
depending on the allusions and echoes and images that rise to the surface.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
As we’ve reflected back on the connections that most
influence us we see that the strongest ones often come through our senses. Like
being drawn to a kitchen when someone is baking cookies. These echoes can show
up in unexpected places or be ones we hold tightly, so as not to forget a place
or a special person. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
When times of chaos, or tragedy, or stress strike, these
images can become lifelines as well when they hold goodness and love.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
As mentioned earlier we need to keep listening to our stories.
Don’t force a symbol or theme but watch and see through the brainstorming and
drafts what rises to the surface. However, once you see the comparisons, or
know some themes, look for ways to enhance them naturally. If a particular
metaphor keeps echoing through the work examine it for the potential to either
become a symbol you incorporate, or keep as a symbol for yourself writing
towards it without stating what it is.</div>
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<br /></div>
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The movie <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Shag</i> is
named after and highlights Carolina Shag dancing in the 1960’s. The focus is
set on a weekend with four young women transitioning from high-school. The
dance allusion tracks their personal discoveries as they begin to see
themselves from a new perspective. </div>
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<br /></div>
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Some of its timeless appeal definitely included the music,
which captured the era, was fun, and wove its own magic. But the key echo was
the metaphor of dance behind the actual dance steps and music, which the movie
blended seamlessly throughout the storyline.</div>
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<br /></div>
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For example: the character Pudge loves to dance, is so excited
she can’t wait to be at the dance hall, and faces immediate disappointment as
no one wants to dance with her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She sees herself through her nickname as undesirable. The surface
dilemma is a minor inconvenience to the deeper desire for Pudge to have someone
value her for herself, for someone to wants to ‘dance’ with her, to match her
heart. </div>
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<br /></div>
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The young man she meets insists he can’t shag so Pudge
offers to teach him. He actually is an excellent dancer but he too is looking
beyond the surface and doesn’t want to be liked just because he can dance in
the contest. The dance metaphor guides them into a real understanding of
friendship and relationship and possibilities.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
They learn their new steps as individuals hearing their own
heartbeats, their real desires, and their soul hungers.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Action Steps:<o:p></o:p></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;">
1. Choose a dance theme that
matches your character, whether current or historical to her real timeline.
Chart out the actual dance moves and the pattern to them.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;">
2. How can you apply that pattern
to an emotional conflict she is trying to comprehend?</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Share: What timeless quality does it unveil for her
situation?</div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Read deep, marcy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Workshop: Discover
Words That Sing<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I hope the audience
will feel the possibility of magic—if not real magic, then the metaphor of
magic—touching their lives, and making them better for it.”</i> Scott Glenn</div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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In our writing, as well as on the roads we literally travel
on, we continually need to read directions to understand where we are, to make
sure we haven’t gotten lost. What does that sign say? Danger ahead,
construction work in progress, slow down, curve ahead, slippery, speed limit.
The story becomes as much a part of the journey as the destination.</div>
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<br /></div>
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There are many maps to explore: mythic, cultural,
psychological, spiritual, emotional, and personal. All have the potential to
deepen our appreciation of the story we’re in. Our emotions engage in resonance
as we hold our breath at the villain, sigh in relief at escape, and cry with
happiness at reconciliation. Our hearts watch for the clues.</div>
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<br /></div>
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In the movie, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Seventh Stream</i>, we can also track the moral direction of the characters through
their actions. Dunhill is an embittered young man who controls Mairead, the
selkie. Greed is Dunhill’s heart’s desire.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Our first glimpse is his attempt to kill a seal. But he
stops as he looks into her eyes. Why? Belated compassion? No, instead he has a
glimmer of a greater bounty. Unlike Quinn, Dunhill does believe the legends and
so he captures the skin of this selkie, forcing her under his power. </div>
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<br /></div>
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He is desperate for a life of ease, for the respect of the
villagers and for riches. Greed leads to murder. First he kills her spirit by
imprisoning her. Then later he threatens to kill his own father. His choices
and decisions are plotted according to his heart’s desires as clearly as a
roadmap. </div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Action Steps:<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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1. Choose one of the “seven deadly
sins” and write out a trajectory for its satisfaction, from the smallest
impulse to final completion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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2. Apply those steps to your
antagonist’s career arc. </div>
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<br /></div>
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Share: What sin did you choose? Why and how does it apply?</div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Read deep, marcy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
<!--EndFragment--><br />Marcy Weydemullerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14708981498093209688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90908113417852458.post-36959726131103334752019-06-04T04:00:00.000-07:002019-06-04T04:00:08.326-07:00Words With Impact: Describe Symbols as Allusions and Echoes: Mirrors
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Workshop: Discover
Words That Sing<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“A fantasy novel is
more than an adventure or a quest. Rather it is a series of image-repeating
glasses, a hall of mirrors that brings past and future into focus and calls it
the present.” </i>Jane Yolen</div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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Even when the glass is smudged, a mirror reflects an image.
So do memories, even though sometimes they shift and blur like a house of
mirrors giving a distorted emphasis. But then we can filter and process and
hold onto the parts that have meaning. </div>
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<br /></div>
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A series of repeating images also connects us in our
personal histories, our personal daily adventures, and our quests. They’re not
always easy to grasp though because of other influences, and often jaded
opinions.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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In the movie <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Larry
Crowne</i>, Larry’s navy experience is dismissed by a thoughtless co-worker as
irrelevant because of him only being a cook. Yet when Larry himself finally has
the opportunity to share his memories in a safe environment, we see what an
enriching life that opportunity gave him. His memories hold his audience rapt
as he shares traveling the world, crossing the equator, and seeing the Northern
Lights, places we often only see in magazines and television. He lived it. And
with humor he also shares peeling potatoes, serving up pasta, and doing dishes.
His day-to-day adventure.</div>
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<br /></div>
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His perspective takes that particular season of his life and
then holds in his memory the parts that matter, the parts that make him real.
It has focus in the present.</div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Action Steps:<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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1. Take a memory your main
character has from childhood that she remembers with extreme fondness. Then
have a relative turn the actual memory upside down. What impact does that have?</div>
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2. Repeat with a memory that
causes fear.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Share: Which one gave a stronger image?</div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Read deep, marcy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<!--EndFragment--><br />Marcy Weydemullerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14708981498093209688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90908113417852458.post-37226982011104413212019-06-01T04:00:00.000-07:002019-06-01T04:00:15.412-07:00Words With Impact: Describe Symbols as Allusions and Echoes: Shadows
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Workshop: Discover
Words That Sing<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">All real art comes from the deepest
self—painting, writing, music, and dance, all of it that in some way nourishes
the spirit and enriches the understanding.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">Frederick Buechner</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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The reality of common day-to-day activities can also be
developed into shadows, as both passages from long ago or as foretelling to the
future. These symbols also have the potential to tap into echoes and allusions
and metaphors that build a bridge to both.</div>
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<br /></div>
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For example, in our early draft we just write everything
down as it comes to us through our senses. Usually we lean on ordinary words
for basic descriptions. Then we go back through to paint in feelings and
scenery and ambiance. But sometimes we’re still stuck with the ordinary because
it’s so familiar that other thoughts or phrases just won’t come to mind without
sounding artificial or planted.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Memories can be quite elusive when it comes to recognizing
their truths. We tend to look at them through filtered lenses, rose-colored for
positive and shaded for negative, automatically changing their initial reality
and impact. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
But our sensory memories don’t cloud the recall. Whether we
appreciate them or not, just a brief taste, or fragrance, or sound can catapult
us in an instant. Or, at the least, we have an emotional reaction to the input
and don’t know quite why. And the senses sharpen the pleasure or the pain, even
when we try to forget.</div>
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<br /></div>
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In the historical romance <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“A Memory Between Us,”</i> by Sarah Sundin, army nurse Lieutenant Ruth
Doherty remembers her past well. In fact, so well, that she has built a
protective emotional barrier around herself to keep it locked up. She stays
focused and stays professional. And if it should try to derail her, she turns
to well-honed defense mechanisms to lock it back.</div>
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But eventually she takes a step towards love, accepts a kiss
for a brief moment of yearning and then the sensory memory attacks, robbing her
of present happiness, and skidding her backwards when: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“His breath stank of beer and sausage. He ground the broken watch glass
into her wrist, ground the truth into her head: ‘You’ll never get rid of me.
You’ll always see my face.’”</i></div>
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And so she runs from the present honorable man, convinced she
will never be freed from the pain.</div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Action Steps:<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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1. Make a sensory list for your
character. From each category choose her most favorite memory, and her most
horrible memory. Which one is the most dramatic, or the most humorous? Look for
a place in one of your scenes to use this memory to create friction with
another character.</div>
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<br /></div>
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2. Choose a turning point memory
in your own life, or for your character. Write it up with as many details as
possible. Don’t worry about overwriting it. Pour in sensory specifics.</div>
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3. Now color code the sensory
highlights as if you were filling in a stained glass window or a
paint-by-number. Which color is predominant?</div>
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4. Next re-write as a scene capturing
that particular focus or echo.</div>
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5. If you have written the scene
as fiction—now redo as non-fiction or vice versa.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Share: What differences did you see between the two? How did
your emphasis of focus change between the imaginary and the real?</div>
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<br /></div>
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If
it’s not too personal, please share one phrase of that scene.</div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Read deep, marcy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Workshop: Discover
Words That Sing<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I love doing
something like this because you’re dealing with some of the best poetry that
anyone’s ever written. And this poetry involves deep emotions: love and
gentleness and caring.”</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Actor Scott Glenn</div>
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<br /></div>
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It is important that the emotional resonance works.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Regardless of genre, symbols and
metaphors as echoes can come from art or music, from sports or food, and many
other ordinary sources. What would the Siren’s song look like in a Dr. Who
episode? What nectar filters through a romance? Taking a familiar symbol and
redesigning its purpose enhances resonance.</div>
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<br /></div>
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The film <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Simply
Irresistible</i> adds an echo of fairy dust to the heroine’s cooking. Although
I personally did not like the film <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Waitress</i><u>,</u>
I admired all the pie creations. The foundation began with a strong echo of
small town America by using a local diner, pies, and struggling waitresses. </div>
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<br /></div>
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In the sci-fi series <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Firefly,
</i>episode two, incorporates a confrontation between the Captain and an old
adversary by echoing old westerns. They meet in a deserted area, with snipers
up on the hills instead of wooden buildings. The self-designated ‘mayor’ rides
up on horseback with her posse. The setting provides familiar emotional
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<br /></div>
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Metaphors help create “a holy curiosity” by capturing our
attention. They catch us up and we pause instead of racing past words. Like
Moses we turn to see why the burning bush is not consumed. We allow the
concepts to soak slowly into our emotions.</div>
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<br /></div>
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In the movie, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Seventh Stream</i>, grief-laden widower Quinn is a man of logic. He believes in
only what he can see and feel and “sometimes not even that.” When a mysterious
woman appears in their fishing village he cannot accept that she is walking off
the pages of a legend. </div>
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However, he recognizes her inner turmoil instantly and her
emotional pain strikes his heart. With her pure heart insight as a selkie, a
seal in human form, she discerns his loneliness and uses it to build a bridge
of communication, a bridge of possibility. Gradually both Quinn and the
audience begin to accept the truth of what she is and identify with the
emotional echo both share. Reality and imagination intersect.</div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Action Steps:<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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1. For yourself, or for one of
your characters, choose a painful emotion. Then write a short scene where
another person bridges that pain with healing by use of metaphoric symbol or
image.</div>
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<br /></div>
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2. How does that touch make the
pain better, or at least bearable?</div>
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Share: What echo did you choose?</div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Read deep, marcy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Workshop: Discover
Words That Sing<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><br /></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Three women cackle
over a steaming pot? We know we’re in the presence of evil, thanks to William
Shakespeare, even though these three women may live in Winnipeg and ride
motorcycles.” </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jack Hodgins</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Symbols as
Allusions and Echoes<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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Often we can find our echoes of metaphor, symbols, and
allusions through our personal history, literature, scripture, folk-tales,
songs and culture. These characters, phrases, and patterns continue to add
depth and enrich resonance to our readers.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Jack Hodgins, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A
Passion for Narrative</i>, points out that we can add depth by making stories
connect to other stories by allusions, or implied comparisons, or with passages
that echo passages we recognize from somewhere else. Usually these are
characters, phrases or patterns that make us think of other stories that have
had an effect on us. Boy—raft. Dust bowl—Depression. Cowboys—West. These are
familiar touchstones in American literature. But we’ve also incorporated other
allusions into the cultural history: Holy Grail, Voyages, Hobbits, and Aliens.</div>
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<br /></div>
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We need to keep “listening” to our stories. Don’t force a
symbol, or theme, but watch and see through the brainstorming and drafts what
rises to the surface. However, once you see the comparisons, or know some
themes, look for ways to enhance them naturally. </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
If a particular metaphor keeps echoing through the work
examine it for the potential to either become a symbol you incorporate, or keep
as a symbol for yourself writing towards it without stating what it is.</div>
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<br /></div>
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According to Hodgins, although being aware of the reason
behind it can add more depth and richness and humor when done well. For your
reader though, it is better to be so subtle that it’s almost unnoticed.
Although it’s really not necessary that your reader get the echo reference,
however, if you choose to use it you must know what it means, and use it
properly so that you’re not misinterpreting the basis. The other possibility is
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Action Steps:<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
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echoes did you notice—either as positive or negative—that applied to you
personally?</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
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the echoes you respond to in it.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->If you have a favorite genre in movies, what key
metaphors or connections do you expect to see?</div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Share: Did you discover any surprises in the characters, the
phrases, or patterns?</div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Read deep, marcy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Workshop: Discover
Words That Sing<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Every poetic image,
therefore, is to some degree metaphorical. It looks out from a mirror in which
life perceives not so much its face as some truth about its face.”</i> C. Day
Lewis</div>
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<br /></div>
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A tree is often used as a symbol or metaphor of growth and
life. However, in reverse, it can also impact story by exposing lies and
shadows. Fairy tales and folk tales are rich with living images in all forms,
literally and figuratively. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Scriptures too remind us that choices spread beyond immediate
actions.</div>
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<br /></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“For the creation was
subjected to futility, not of its own will but by the will of the one who
subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be set free from its
bondage to decay.” </i>Romans 8: 20-21 NRSV</div>
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In the opening of the movie <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Penelope</i>, a curse is laid upon the family for their refusal to take
responsibility for their actions. The tree is the courtyard falls into
immediate decay as well. Yet it doesn’t die. Instead it remains as a visual
image reminding the family and others of the curse. Even if they try to pretend
it doesn’t exist, the tree stands in judgment as a silent metaphor. </div>
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<br /></div>
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And it raises story questions such as why are women willing
to marry into this family? Do they not believe in the curse or do they not
care? Or because it was a tree did they believe that growth would come again to
restore life?</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
What metaphor warning could your character not see or
acknowledge? Or what warning does she represent to others? Silent metaphors
woven into your setting can speak into volumes of interpretation.</div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Action Steps:<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Brainstorm a list of growing vegetation, or
other geographic elements, that could be a metaphor for loss to your
protagonist and then be restored at the end of his ordeal.</div>
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<br /></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->How do you hope your reader will interpret it?</div>
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<br /></div>
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Share: What did you choose and why?</div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Read deep, marcy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Workshop: Discover
Words That Sing<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Art washes away from
the soul the dust of everyday life.”</i> Pablo Picasso</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Reading for
Interpretation<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
This creates opportunities for both perspective and voice.
What part of a scene or image do you want the reader to understand the most or
identify with?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Two well-known
poets have used the same source with startling differences while at the same
time remaining true to the story they explore. </div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Fall of Icarus by</i>
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Breughel</i></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
1. Read over the following interpretations of the myth of
Icarus. What do they have in common? </div>
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<br /></div>
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2. What do they each choose as the special focus point
either in theme or detail?</div>
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<br /></div>
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3. Both poems were written in response to the same painting yet
they both reflect the actual myth itself as if they hadn’t seen the painting.
How?</div>
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<br /></div>
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4. See number three exercise in movie prompt at the very
end.</div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
William Carlos Williams, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Landscape
with the Fall of Icarus”<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>According
to Brueghel</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>when
Icarus fell</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>it
was spring</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>a
farmer was ploughing </div>
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his field</div>
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the whole
pageantry</div>
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<br /></div>
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of the year was</div>
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awake tingling</div>
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near</div>
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<br /></div>
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sweating<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in the sun</div>
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that melted</div>
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the wing’s wax</div>
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<br /></div>
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unsignificantly</div>
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off the coast</div>
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there was</div>
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<br /></div>
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a splash quite
unnoticed</div>
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this was</div>
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Icarus drowning.</div>
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<br /></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #333333; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Musee des Beaux
Arts</span></i><span style="color: #333333; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> by W.H.
Auden <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;">
<span style="color: #333333; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">About suffering they were never wrong, <br />
The Old Masters; how well, they understood <br />
Its human position; how it takes place <br />
While someone else is </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="AdBriteInlineAd_eating"><span style="color: #006600; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">eating</span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: AdBriteInlineAd_eating;"></span><span style="color: #333333; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> or opening a window or just walking dully along; <br />
How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting <br />
For the miraculous birth, there always must be <br />
Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating <br />
On a pond at the edge of the wood: <br />
They never forgot <br />
That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course <br />
Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot <br />
Where the dogs go on with their doggy </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="AdBriteInlineAd_life"><span style="color: #006600; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">life</span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: AdBriteInlineAd_life;"></span><span style="color: #333333; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> and the torturer's horse <br />
Scratches its innocent behind on a tree. <br />
In Breughel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away <br />
Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may <br />
Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry, <br />
But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone <br />
As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="AdBriteInlineAd_green"><span style="color: #006600; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">green</span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: AdBriteInlineAd_green;"></span><span style="color: #333333; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <br />
Water; and the expensive delicate </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="AdBriteInlineAd_ship"><span style="color: #006600; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">ship</span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: AdBriteInlineAd_ship;"></span><span style="color: #333333; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> that must have seen <br />
Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky, <br />
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Which version affected you the most? Why?</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Action Steps: Movie
Prompt<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></div>
<div style="margin-left: .25in;">
<span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">1. Take one particular scene from
a recent movie you’ve already watched and put it on pause. Whether you like to
write poetry or not pick out words and phrases from the visual sight that you
would incorporate in a poem, with the idea that a reader may, or may not, see
this ‘painting’ for themselves.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-left: .25in;">
<span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-left: .25in;">
<span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">2. Write a poem based on your
selections just for the fun of it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-left: .25in;">
<span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">3. Do the same exercise for a
visual scene in your own novel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div>
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Share: Did you notice anything in this scene that you missed
the first time around? </div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 2.0in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Read deep, marcy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Workshop: Discover
Words That Sing<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Creativity is itself an act of optimism.” Edward Albee</div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Literal to Figurative
Language<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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Not every sentence needs the depth of imagery or else the
whole becomes diluted. However using figurative language can enhance a key
quality, or theme, or conflict. The best ones are the subtle images that speak
softly into our hearts. </div>
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<br /></div>
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For example, information boards and kiosks, from local
hiking trails to prestigious museums, have one common note. “You are here.” The
X marks the spot. These literal markers add a sense of safety and security
emotionally. Disorientation in physical surroundings often can result in immediate
stress. Adventurers may react with an adrenaline rush of excitement, but for
others it can raise fearful memories of no measure of control.</div>
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<br /></div>
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In the movie <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Moonacre</i>,
orphan Maria Merryweather is introduced to her new country home as her new
uncle takes her around the land, marking out boundaries, and giving clear
warnings as to where she should not go. He refuses any explanations for dictated
external dangers and her confusion. He tells her what she may and may not do,
and then dismisses her with curt exits.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Left with only a partial map of her new surroundings, she
attempts to find some solid ground emotionally and figuratively as she tumbles
into even more bewildering situations. </div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Action Steps:<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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1.Take your character to the home
of a relative that she never knew existed. Literally or figuratively, close the
door behind her. How does she get her bearings in this place? <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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Share: What emotional roller coaster does it unleash?</div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Bonus Exercise</b>: This
next suggestion comes from the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Nature Writing
Handbook</i>. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“In this exercise we will
attempt to change literal language into figurative language. In each sentence,
the underlined word is used literally. Write a sentence in which the word is
used figuratively.”<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<br /></div>
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Given Example. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“The
aspen leaves <u>trembled</u> in the wind. (response</i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol;">¾</span></span>The
Northern lights trembled in the Alaskan night sky like the thoughts of a mother
sleepless with concern for her baby)” <o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Some additional sentence examples for practice included
different aspects of nature.</div>
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<br /></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“1.The porpoises <u>swam</u> beside the boat.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">2.The flowers <u>drooped </u>under the hailstorm.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">3.The volcano <u>exploded </u>quite suddenly.”<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Read deep, marcy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Workshop: Discover
Words That Sing<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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“A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into
images.” Albert Camus </div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Metaphor Connections
in Sentences<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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Using the right choice of metaphors and similes to partner
with verbs can give sentences an extra kick without being obvious. It can
sometimes be a silent way to enhance emotions, danger, mystery, and curiosity.
They give the readers of sense of satisfaction when the connections fit the
circumstances but also can create confusion when the link is even slightly off
the intended mark.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Author Ron Koertge offered this example in a writing workshop.
Take a sentence and list five or more possible images. Then choose the most
effective.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Sentence example: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“In his rage my father would bang on the wall like a
---------.”</div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Hammer,
or wrecking ball, or baboon, or caged gorilla.”</div>
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<br /></div>
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Rage—bang is the main concept, so it will make the metaphor
more accurate to use hammer. It visually gives the reader the sense of
repetition in the anger.</div>
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<br /></div>
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The key here is to follow through the possible thought and
“see” it as an image. Watch the sentence unfold as a silent screen. What do you
need to come next? </div>
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<br /></div>
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If for instance the wrecking ball is chosen, then there is
no next sentence or scene. Everything has been demolished. And the original
beginning indicates this is a repetitive behavior. </div>
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<br /></div>
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A caged gorilla doesn’t make sense either, as they would
most likely shake their bars but not pound repeatedly. And general images of a
baboon are often of pounding his own chest.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
When some of our sentences seem too passive we can play with
other verbs or word associations to strengthen the image we want to linger.
However, like purple prose, it is not for overuse either. But when we want a
hint to the story atmosphere, or characterization, these connections can help
build a stronger sentence and image.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Action Steps:<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;">
1. When you next read a book in
your favorite genre pay attention to the images and emotions that the author
quietly indicates through individual sentences.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;">
2. Note which ones make sense to
you and which make you stop to reread the sentence.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;">
3. Look through your own draft and
look for your own connecting images to see if they still fit the atmosphere. </div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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Share: Where you surprised by any you found—either
positively or negatively?</div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Read deep, marcy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Workshop: Discover
Words That Sing<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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</span>“When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John F. Kennedy</div>
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Here we continue to look more intently at the language we
use on a day-to-day basis and examine ways to enhance it. It’s amazing how
often we speak in clichés and obviously we try to avoid them in our
writing—both fiction and non-fiction. We sometimes forget, though, that often
clichés came into being because of their unique and fresh way of perspective.</div>
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Although we’re focusing on poetry techniques in these next
exercises, the ability to capture a poetic eye freshens all our writing—across
styles and across genres. Vignettes also require this type of insight due to
the sparseness of length.</div>
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Non-fiction pieces are also brought alive with poetic images
and metaphors. Here’s another excerpt from an essay by Patricia Hampl in “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I Could Tell You Stories</i>.” Note how her
description combined with simile draw us to share her experience.</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“The stranger’s
remark, launched in the dark of the Greyhound, floated across the human
landscape like the lingering tone of a struck bell from village church, and
joined all the silence that ever was, as I turned my face to the window where
the world was rushing by along the slow river.” <o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Action Steps:
Practice Clichés<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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1. Take well-known clichés and
shift them around. Make a list of as many common ones that you can think of and
then crisscross them just for fun. Some will be hilarious and ridiculous. And
some might spark a new phrase.</div>
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Example. “Flat as a pancake, good
as gold” becomes flat as gold, good as a pancake.</div>
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2. This is really entertaining in
a small group of writers and rather surprising at some of the images that can
come to the surface.</div>
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3. Practice shifting old concepts
around until they become new and fresh.</div>
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Share: Choose one or two of your favorites. Why—funny or
serious?</div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Read deep, marcy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--EndFragment--><br />Marcy Weydemullerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14708981498093209688noreply@blogger.com0