Category: Anjuelle Floyd Author Blog
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Archetypes and Story
Much like the gods and goddesses of Hinduism and Yoruban spirituality reflect the forces of the human mind and heart, archetypes display aspects and dimensions of character and personality. They show the various degrees of evolution of the human soul from birth to death.
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Fuel for Change
“Summoned or not, the god will come.” –motto on the door of Carl Jung’s home. Archetypes help writers clarify a character’s function and role in the way of plot development and the evolution of personality regarding the protagonist. Stories are about growth and change. And archetypes carry energies.
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Archetypes and Human Needs
Characters viewed as archetypes can be seen as facets of the protagonist’s personality come to greet her or him in the journey towards achieving a goal.
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Mythic Structure and Story
All stories consist of a few common elements. These elements constitute all stories, fairy tales, dreams, movies, and myths. These elements also form what Christopher Vogler describes in The Writer’s Journey–Mythic Structure for Writers, as The Hero’s Journey. The Hero’s Journey becomes not only a universal myth for human kind, but also offers a blueprint…
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Radio Show | Author, Laura Brodie
Author, Laura Brodie, discusses her debut novel, The Widow’s Season. Laura is also the author of Breaking Out: VMI and the Coming of VMI. So tune in.
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The Writer and The Temple
—Green my life and remove my sorrows. The picture is stunning. But it was the words underneath that caught my attention.The relationship between global warming and fiction writing may not present as clear.
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Conflict and Desire
Conflict arises from a character seeking to achieve a goal and encountering an obstacle along the way. Another way of looking at this is CHARACTER + GOAL = CONFLICT. It is most helpful, when writing a story, if you can define the character’s goal in physical terms. But what if your protagonist desires love?