Character Archetypes: The Mentor

Hi gang, Craig with you today. This is post number two in the character archetypes series. In the Hero’s Journey, there are some common characters that are likely to show up in all stories. This doesn’t mean each archetype shows up in every story, and aside from the hero, the rest are kind of optional. …

Character Archetypes: The Hero

Hi Gang, Craig here today. Put on your tinfoil hats, because I’m about to create a wormhole in the writing world. Once Upon a time, I wrote a series about The Hero's Journey, also known as the Writing Monomyth. It was fun, I got some good comments, then I came up with various expansion packs …

Expansion Pack: Character Archetypes + a trick

Hi gang. Craig here with you again. Last year sometime, I wrote a series here about The Hero’s Journey. This is a link to PART ONE. Then I went on to write several Expansion Packs. Those are easy enough to find by using the search function at the very bottom of our page. I’m not …

The “classic” trilogy

Hi gang! Craig with you again today. I'm in the middle of writing a trilogy, so take this info with a grain of salt. I've done my homework, and I want to share some of that here today. The topic is the "classic" trilogy. You know as well as I do, that any three related …

When You Can’t Find Your Past Participle

Hello SErs. Happy Wednesday. Harmony here 🙂 While writing my current book, Exodus, I ran into a little difficulty ... well, it felt more like a brick wall, lol. What tripped me up well and truly is a little thing called a past participle (I don't know about you, but I hate grammatical terms. They …