When I'm starting a new project, I try to list all the characters out just to see who I think will be in the narrative. Then, I try to break down who they are and why they should be there. In order to ...

The narrative of human existence has long been shaped by archetypes—universal patterns of behavior, thought, and emotion that resonate deeply across cultures and epochs. Derived from Carl Jung's ...

It has been a while since I talked about archetypes, but I was thinking about them lately because of a science-fiction novel I was reading, which was filled with them. Basically, an archetype is a ...