Comments on: Spice Up Your Fiction–Simple Ways to Create Page-Turning Conflict

By: Dani Denatti

Dani Denatti — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 13:48:53 +0000

I just stumbled upon this fun, informative blog and am loving it! Thanks so much for recommending ‘The Complete Writer’s Guide to Heroes and Heroines.’ I have been searching for a good guide on character archetypes, and this one sounds amazing.

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By: Yvette Carol

Yvette Carol — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 00:08:27 +0000

Vogler’s book ‘The Writer’s Journey’ breaks characters down into 7 archetypes. I often refer to this list when I’m coming up with characters.
1. Hero
2. Mentor
3. Threshold Guardian
4. Herald
5. Shapeshifter
6. Shadow
7. Trickster

Yvette Carol

By: Author Kristen Lamb

Author Kristen Lamb — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 19:33:45 +0000

Awwwww *hugs* Thanks .

By: Writerlious

Writerlious — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 17:56:11 +0000

Such a helpful post!! It’s no wonder you’re a famous blogger in the writing community. You somehow manage to distill an important lesson on writing into a short, sweet post that’s both funny and accessible.

Kudos, Kristen!

By: dugger50

dugger50 — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 16:25:48 +0000

Thanks for the great insight! Here are some really good lessons to learn. All stories are built with a formula as you say, It’s not magic, but when it is done right, it seems like it!

By: Author Kristen Lamb

Author Kristen Lamb — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 01:41:07 +0000

I’m not picky, LOL Close enough for government work. It isn’t like I have a name that has only one spelling,:D.

By: KM Huber

KM Huber — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 01:17:04 +0000

That’s terrific, Kristen; completed my class registration today. Sorry about misspelling your name–I do know better–have a good friend with the same name but hers is spelled with two i’s, and, of course, I misspelled her name today as well. I know, right?

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 00:28:46 +0000

Great post! I kind of wish there was another word other than “conflict” we could use to describe it though. Normally when people think of conflict in our culture the word “armed” comes before it, hence all the extremes you were talking about. Plus it’s just easier to write conflict when the people are diametrically opposed to one another, haha.

I’m working on a story myself that has, your post made me realize, a great deal of ally conflict. In this case, it seems that the conflict comes because the characters are in many ways alike. Sometimes the people who are most like us are the ones who irritate us the most, haha