Sick!

Hi everyone - I've picked up some cold/'flu thing in Sydney and have been sick ever since I got home. I won't be in to teach tomorrow. Sorry about that - I hate missing two weeks in a row, but really can't manage teaching yet.

We'll catch up with all the workshops, book reviews and short story analyses next week. In the meantime, think about archetypes. Can you choose one of the following archetypes to write a story about - or move them from one archetype to another during the course of a story? Or, alternatively, can you name or use one of them in your novel?
1. The Innocent
2. The Orpahn
3. The Warrior
4. The Caregiver
5. The Seeker
6. The Destroyer
7. The Lover
8. The Creator
9. The Ruler
10. The Magician
11. The Sage
12. The Fool

These are from a book called, Awakening the Heroes Within - Carol S. Pearson. You can read more about the archetypes here. But you can also use your own intelligence and intuition to think them through - and think about their dark sides, as well. It's often the dark side of someone that pushes the story through into the light.