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ARCHTYPES: EMPOWERING SOURCE-DRIVEN CHARACTERS AND PLOTS

By: Robert Jones

Archetypes have a universal power that, when tapped effectively, is proven to generate best-selling novels and films. The right combination of source-driven elements can shape characters that become larger than their creators: iconic symbols of hope, love, and courage for our time–even time immemorial.

SO WHAT’S AN ARCHETYPE ANYWAY?

The word Archetype, taken from the Greek, means First Pattern, a prototype from which subsequent thoughts, or forms, might be birthed. And if you like juicy thoughts, the kind that mingles with the fabric of creation itself, consider the term Archetypal Mind, suggesting a oneness with everything, universal ideas existing with greater reality than our current reality, a single creative force from which all else is made manifest.

Many proclaim authors to be the gods of our fictional universes, the Creative Force, from which we manifest our stories. Every story is spawned from a single seed forged within the mind of the author. Call it a conceptual notion, a thesis, a mission statement, or a First Pattern, it becomes the archetypal embryo, a single cell that divides and sub-divides into everything else. And since all things within a novel are really separate components (facets) that serve a single source, Archetypal Planning can give writers a variety of choices up front that leads to developing real story possibilities in an easy spill-down process from source to story path to characters.

7 MAJOR STORY ARCHETYPES . . .

Read the full article HERE!

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If you missed my writing & marketing tweets and retweets yesterday, here they are again:

1. Kobo: Ending Agency Pricing Will Kill Us - The Digital Reader http://ow.ly/uHyL1
2. Nook Press Launches in Europe Today - The Digital Reader http://ow.ly/uHyTS
3. ARCHETYPES: Empowering Source-Driven Characters and Plots http://ow.ly/uHAdU  @Storyfix
4. Why Book Publishers Need to Think Like Amazon | The Passive Voice | http://ow.ly/uHAob
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13. Confession of a Once Anti-Independent Publishing Novelist | Gail Gaymer Martin http://ow.ly/uHIUX
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19. Should You Write the Whole Book? - Books & Such Literary Management : Books & Such Literary Management http://ow.ly/uJfG9

Happy writing and running, Kathy