Hello! You’ve joined The Script Mistress for Scene 25: Character Archetype Series, The Child! I am your host, Amber Bosworth. For the next 12 episodes, I’m going to dig deep into each of the 12 popular character archetypes. I barely scratched the surface in my episode all the way back to Scene 11. Go back and listen if you want just a quick rundown of those 12 types at www.thescriptmistress.com/scene11.
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Last week was all about the Warrior, today we go on to The Child.
An archetype is a character template designed with universally familiar personality traits, experiences, desires, and fears.
Strengths of the Child
- Imaginative
- Trusting
- Hopeful
Weaknesses of the Child
- Weak in physicality or power
- Naive to the world
- Easily taken advantage of
The Child's Motivation:
To learn, obtain happiness, and to find truth
So, now that we have dived deeper into this archetype, how can use these strengths, weaknesses, fears and so on to create a Child/Innocent character in your story?
WRITING ACTION: I’ve created a NEW worksheet for these 12 archetypes. Download the character archetype worksheet and fill it out for whichever archetype character you are working on. Get it here: https://www.thescriptmistress.com/archetypes/ Feel free to share some of your thoughts on the Facebook page at www.facebook.com/ink2screen or email me at [email protected] to get extra help.
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