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Character Archetypes – L for Lover
When the lover is mentioned the archetype normally conjures up an image of a love interest within the romance genre. But the lover archetype is more than a romantic archetype, it’s about life. The...
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Character Archetypes – M for Minions, Medleys and Minor Characters
We can use character archetypes as a go-to tool to populate our stories with all the secondary and tertiary characters necessary for a world. Using Archetypes to Populate Your World Although many of...
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Applying Psychology to Character Development [Resources]
Last month my family underwent a traumatic incident in real life which still sits with us to this day. For several weeks I found myself unable to lift a keyboard to continue on my writing tasks. In...
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Character Archetypes – N for Nerd
The Nerd as modern archetype, is one often confused with Geeks, Dorks and many others. So, I’ll deal with all of these. The Nerd, The Geek, and more “Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working...
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Character Archetypes – O for Ordinary Man or Orphan
The Ordinary or Everyman (person) sometimes called the Orphan is one of Jung’s 12 basic archetypes, and although sounds, well, ordinary, the archetype holds many useful connotations and universal...
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Character Archetypes– P for Prophet (Oracle & Wise Old Man)
The Prophet as character archetype has a substantial history as one of our expected religious or mythological personas, but also has close associations with our more modern archetypes of the visionary...
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Character Archetypes– Q for the Questioner
The Questioner is a generic title for several different character archetypes who take on the mantle of questioning – either as an investigation or to provide a moral reminder to other characters. The...
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Character Archetypes – R for Royals & Rulers
The Royals – Kings, Queens, Princesses, Monarchs etc, are often also the Rulers of our fictional worlds. But both archetypes also come in good or bad forms. The Royal or Ruler “I am in control” or...
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Ideation Resource – Idea Camp
While I work on getting back into the Character Archetype Series (S to Z to go), I wanted to share a good blog series recently published as a writing resource. Lucy Flint spent June publishing an Idea...
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Character Archetypes–S for Sidekick
The Sidekick is a character who accompanies the hero or protagonist on their journey. The Sidekick “I’m with him.” Like the mentor, but even more so, the sidekick archetype is an interesting one, as...
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Character Archetypes – T for The Traitor (and the Shapeshifter)
The Traitor is a villain-type to the main character, but often not realised as such until much later into the storyline. It’s this element of surprise which makes the traitor a very successful...
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Character Archetypes – U for Ubermensch
The Ubermensch in this sense is another name for the superhero or superhuman. However the post also discusses the non-super-powered ubermensch. The Ubermensch “With great power comes great...
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Character Archetypes – V for Villain (28 Villain Types)
Villains aren’t an archetype, but a necessary character type for any story. But there are many villainous archetypes a villain can fit into, some of which will be listed in this post. The Villain...
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Character Archetypes – W for Writer (9 Writer Types)
The Writer, ah the writer. Is there actually a writer archetype? The Writer “If you can imagine it, it can be done” ~ creator archetype motto (Jung) The Creative The Writer as we know it now, is a...
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More Resources for Using Tarot for Writing
Very early this year I published a large post on using tarot for writing inspiration. Since then, the post has made some headway around the tarot community in general. Here are some additional...
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Character Archetypes – X for X-Type (A Study of 4’s)
Do your characters have A or B Type personalities? Or perhaps something from both? Or maybe they are a C Type or D Type? With associations to blood types, or maybe some humor? Today’s post will be a...
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Character Archetypes – Y for Young Man from the Provinces
The Young Man from the Provinces is a hero type in a situational story archetype. The Archetype “I return, ready to take my rightful place”~ Young Man from the Provinces Motto The young man from the...
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Character Archetypes – Z for Zoologist
Okay, for Z I’m taking liberties and actually titling with a career choice, not an actual archetype, but the zoologist or animal loving character has a few tropes to work with. For the real zoologists...
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Index Post–Character Archetypes A to Z
And so the end of the Character Archetypes A to Z has arrived. This is the final index to the posts. I hope these were helpful for some. These posts were published from March through August 2016 on the...
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Character Archetypes – From Archetype to Character
Some timely news to tag onto the full 26 post series describing some character archetypes: There is now a brand new workshop on turning archetypes into full characters. And it’s on special if you get...
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