Tag Archives: character development

All I want for Christmas…

…is an internet connection. It seems that the rain causes our phone lines to act up, which in turn prevent me from connecting to the internet long enough or well enough to load even a single site. Dial-up internet is … Continue reading

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Working Review: Letters from Abroad

(ETA: Title changed to save me from unintended search hits.) First off, this was not the column I planned to write. That column was all about scenes. It was very informative, or so I like to think. But it ended … Continue reading

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Working Review: Archetypal Acrobatics, Pt. 3

First, let me talk about what I got in the demonstration then I will say a few words about Breathing Life. My hope was to see how different archetypes could color Heather and maybe figure out which one felt closest … Continue reading

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Working Review: Archetypal Acrobatics, Pt. 2

I pared my list of archetypes down to just three, which I saw as being the most wildly divergent while still being plausible. Heather might have elements of Pygmalion in her personality, but they’re not exactly central to her character … Continue reading

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Working Review: Archetypal Acrobatics, Pt. 1

I had every intention of doing a second exercise from Brian Kiteley’s The 3 A.M. Epiphany. But when I tried to start, I realized that I had planned to use one from the POV chapter again and I could not … Continue reading

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