45 Master Characters by Victoria Schmidt
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- Pub. Date: August 2007
- 304pp
- Sales Rank: 197,250
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: August 2007
- Publisher: F+W Media, Inc.
- Format: Paperback, 304pp
- Sales Rank: 197,250
- ISBN-13: 9781582975221
- ISBN: 1582975221
- Edition Description: Reprint
Synopsis
Every novelist, screenwriter and oral storyteller faces the challenge of creating original and exciting characters. Archetypes—mythic, cross-cultural models from which all characters originate—provide a solid foundation upon which to fashion new and vastly different story people. 45 Master Characters explores the most common male and female archetypes, provides instructions for using them to create your own original characters, and gives examples of how other authors have brought such archetypes to life in novels, film and television. Worksheets are then included for writers to develop and map the lives of their own characters.
Excellent companion to the works of Joseph Campbell
The first and only book focusing heavily on the heroine's journey
Includes 45 black & white movie stills and line art depicting classic examples of each archetype
Victoria Schmidt is a screenwriter for film and television. A graduate of the film programs at UCLA and NYU, she holds a Masters degree in screenwriting from Loyola Marymount. She lives and writes in Los Angeles.
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A mythos look at the human personalityby gwionfawyr
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March 09, 2009: 45 Master Characters is a generally straight-forward book leaning towards the creation of unique and intriguing characters. By ascribing certain mythological deities and thier literal personifications, you get to see how most people are perceieved by an outside source.
For the professional writer or scholar, this would be a good tool to use to base stereotypical characters on. For students and the novice writer, it gives a great starting place for the customisation of a character.I would definitely recommend this book to be added to your personal library. You may never know when you might need it.I Also Recommend: 20 Master Plots, Write Great Fiction - Characters, Emotion & Viewpoint.
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