PODCAST – INSIDE OUT: Character, Archetypes and The Psychology of Revision

If you're willing to surrender some degree of control and write from the subconscious mind, rather than the conscious mind, you have the ability to tap into the Collective Unconscious. And if you can actually tap into it, you don't need to know what a Threshold Guardian or a Terrible Father is or, to use Blake Snyder's terminology, what a “Monster in the House” movie actually is.

If you can tap into The Collective Unconscious, then all you need to do is to write the archetypes that you find there. And you will know that those archetypes are the archetypes that anyone can connect to.

This is an approach to writing that says, instead of trying to name, categorize, or follow the formula, what we can actually do is go inside our own minds, surrender a little bit of control, and bring our own personal archetypes to the surface...

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