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Using Face Shapes and Physiognomy for Character Development [Resource Links]
If the previous post on using tarot for character development appeared right-of-center for you, this one appears it for me. Previously dismissive of the field of Physiognomy, I was happy to find that...
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Free Character Creator
If you have a lot of free gigabytes and bandwidth, and a lot of time to spare for downloads, you may find the newly released Black Desert character creator beneficial in creating a look-a-like for any...
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Developing Characters with a CharList
In a December 2015 post, author Mary Carroll Moore blogged about Elizabeth George’s character list technique for character development. Character Lists, for Elizabeth George, are basically...
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Tech for Writers: Writing with Jeopardy or Kittens
Most writers I know have been aware of the perilous Write or Die app for several years, but there are a few new options if writing with jeopardy is something which tools up your writing productivity....
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Character Archetypes: B for Brat
Today’s character archetype is a modern trope normally associated to the teen or child. The Brat has an interesting pedigree, and has gone from a totally negative stereotype to one which can be used as...
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Character Archetypes: C for Catalyst
Today’s character archetype is a Jungian archetype, one of the 12 archetypes defined through myth. But it’s also commonly used in Branding today, and often referred to with a different label – that of...
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How to Write Better using our Multiple Intelligences
Howard Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences is normally applied as learning styles to the education fields, but it’s applicable across our lives, and as I’ve found, to my own work and writing...
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Character Archetypes: D for Dolphin
Today’s character archetype is representative of the many animal archetypes we can make use of in building a character. Many animals symbolise certain traits, roles and metaphors as soon as we think of...
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What’s your Superpower?
So, I’ve been playing around some more with character development, and got to the point of choosing superpowers. Combined with Myers-Briggs indicators, enneagrams and maybe a smattering of zodiac,...
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Manuskript looks promising
Manuskript is a new open source writing platform currently under heavy development. But the screenshots look promising, offering a Scrivener-like look and what gets me excited: a storyline graph tool,...
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Character Archetypes: E for Explorer
Today’s character archetype is one of the twelve Jungian archetypes but also a common archetype if you have explored the Myers-Briggs or Enneagram personality types. The explorer can be found in many...
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Character (and Plot) Arc Resources
I’m looking for some kind of charting software which would help me to make character arcs which actually look like arcs. At this point, there seems no such thing, but in the process I found some...
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Character Archetypes: F for Fallen Mentor
Delving into the mentor archetype, with a side-plot of fallen, dark and evil mentors, this archetype is popular in recent fiction, and for good reason. The Mentor Archetype The mentor archetype is a...
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How to Create Characters Using Astrology
This post is an accompaniment to a character archetype post G for Gemini. Here's how I create characters based on an archetype from the Western Zodiac, with explanations of astrology for writers....
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Character Archetypes: G for Gemini (and other Zodiac Signs)
Today’s character archetype comes from a source often discounted, that of astrology and our Western Zodiac. The Gemini as a character is profiled below. This post is accompanied by another showing how...
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Join me at myWriteClub
myWriteClub is a new beta site which allows you to setup writing goals to track and share. Currently in beta, joining is free. Writing goals can be setup on words or page counts, percentages, amounts...
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Character Archetypes – H for Herald (and Hermes)
A double-up on archetypes – The Herald arrives from The Hero’s Journey, and Hermes is the Ancient Greek God, charged as Divine Herald amongst many other archetypal elements. The Herald “Announcing…a...
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Character Archetypes – I for the Initiates
Here’s a modern name for an archetype which comes originally from mythic stories. The Initiate can be an individual, or a group archetype, and is often linked with an archetypal plot point, that of...
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Character Archetypes – J for Judge
Appearing quite simple, the Judge archetype has quite a bit of power behind it, and can play character roles in your story which can be extremely positive, extremely negative, or extremely conflictive....
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Character Archetypes – K for Kuudere (and the other ‘Deres’)
The Kuudere, Tsundere, Dandere and Yandere are archetypes from Japanese anime. They are relevant to female young characters as love interests in particular, but Western fiction also has many archetypes...
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