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Tag Archives: Caro LaFever
creating characters, part 5: combining archetypes
I’ve been sharing my discoveries about the art of character creation in storytelling. The idea here is to build characters from the inside out, to make vital, interesting characters from scratch instead of trying to create characters based purely on … Continue reading
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Tagged A Christmas Carol, archetypes, Caro LaFever, Caroline Myss, character, Christopher Booker, creating characters, creating characters in epic fiction, Ebenezer Scrooge, fiction, Gone With the Wind, sacred contracts, Scarlett O'Hara, story archetype, Sue Viders, Tami D Cowden, the complete writer's guide to heroes & heroines, writing
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creating characters, part 4: story archetypes
In part 3 I described how to start building a character by snapping together 2 different kinds of archetype: a heroic archetype, using the book The Complete Writer’s Guide to Heroes & Heroines: Sixteen Master Archetypes by Tami D. Cowden, … Continue reading
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Tagged archetypes, Carl Jung, Caro LaFever, Caroline Myss, Carolyn Myss, character, Christopher Booker, Christopher Vogler, creating characters, creating characters in epic fiction, female archetypes, hero, individuation, Joseph Campbell, Jung, male archetypes, monomyth, mythology, sacred contracts, story archetype, Sue Viders, Tami D Cowden, The Age of Pisces, the complete writer's guide to heroes & heroines, The Seven Basic Plots, The Writer's Journey, writing
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creating characters, part 3
Welcome to another installment of my character-creation process for storytelling. I started out by calling the series “creating characters in epic fiction,” but really I’m talking about creating characters in general, so I have shortened my title accordingly. I would … Continue reading
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Tagged archetypes, Broadcast News, Caro LaFever, Carolyn Myss, character, creating characters, creating characters in epic fiction, epic, female archetypes, fiction, Holly Hunter, James L Brooks, Jane Craig, sacred contracts, Sue Viders, Tami D Cowden, the complete writer's guide to heroes & heroines, writing
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creating characters in epic fiction, part 2
Character creation is one of the most difficult and demanding tasks in the art of storytelling. Some people have a talent for it—I think Charles Dickens was one of these—while the rest of us have to stretch out a thinner … Continue reading
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Tagged Anatomy of Criticism by Northrop Frye, archetypes, Caro LaFever, character, Characters and Viewpoint by Orson Scott Card, Charles Dickens, creating characters, creating characters in epic fiction, female archetypes, Gandalf, Herod, high mimetic mode, Ingmar Bergman, JRR Tolkien, Lord of the Rings, male archetypes, MICE Quotient, Northrop Frye, Orson Scott Card, Scenes from a Marriage, Sue Viders, Tami D Cowden, The Age of Pisces, the complete writer's guide to heroes & heroines
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