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I wish “Archetypes for Writers” could have been a much better book, instructive it may be. For all its interesting tidbits about getting to understand your character, and stripping down their personalities, it also manages to truly delve into endless exposition into Arkelogy, and archetypes, and constructing practices about archetypes, and the like.<\/p>\n
And it also manages to state the obvious. The writer knows the characters more than most people. Doy. A writer’s characters are combinations of the writer’s personality, fears, desires, and inhibitions. Thanks for reminding me. I seriously didn’t understand that. But Van Bergen’s aspirations are fascinating. She’s not only seeking to explore the notion of archetypes, but she also hopes to help the writer use this pit fall to their advantage, while re-defining the concept of archetypes and help their writing flourish.<\/p>\n
I just wish it was a much better book. While the overall product is fascinating, there are more misses than hits in terms of tone and instruction. The endless explorations into the meaning of archetypes is awfully tiring, and I sadly just had to skip onto section two. Which is saying a lot because I’m a very patient man. At 270 pages, it’s a tight but fascinating read if you’re not completely versed in the world of writing and its little tinkerings. Characterization is a difficult thing, and avoiding archetypes, both obvious, and clich\u00e9 is a problem for even the best of us, and Van Bergen attempts to help the writers topple this obstacle. “Archetypes for Writers” states the obvious more often than I care for, but for writers who aren’t aware of what certain workings of the writing world can offer, than by all means, look for “Archetypes for Writers.”<\/p>\n
This book can be bought anywhere from Amazon to Michael Weise Productions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I wish “Archetypes for Writers” could have been a much better book, instructive it may be. For all its interesting tidbits about getting to understand your character, and stripping down their personalities, it also manages to truly delve into endless exposition into Arkelogy, and archetypes, and constructing practices about archetypes, and the like. And it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[735,1206],"class_list":["post-1639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","tag-non-fiction","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}