A few years ago, I went to a workshop in New York City for writers. There I was surrounded by a group of novelists. As someone who loves to write fiction, I was interested, but at the time, I wasn’t working on a novel. I was working on a memoir, a book about a series […]
February 17, 2012 by 18 Comments CharactersThree Character Archetypes in Fiction
How do you deeply connect with your readers and yet create unique fiction? How do you write in a way that resounds with people, that speaks into the zeitgeist of the times, but do so without selling out? One of the best ways is through character archetypes. Archetypes are types of characters who appear over […]
