If you are the crazy sort like I am, storytelling is about symbolically integrating the full spectrum of one's personalities into a wh...

Finally, we have reached the last Queen Archetype from the Mopop Queen Within exhibition! She is The Sage, and what a wonderful woman to f...

We are at our second-to-last archetype from the MoPop A Queen Within: Adorned Archetypes exhibition. This one is The Enchantress.  She...

In my June 26th blog post , I introduced us to the Museum of Pop Culture's Queen Within show. Today, we will explore the second archetyp...

I've  been talking about the brilliant Queen Within exhibit at MoPop in Seattle. (here) The third Archetype we visited was The Heroine...

Earlier this month, I went to the Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle, Washington. An amazing exhibit called A Queen Within: Adorned Archetype...

Back on December 12 of 2013, I did a cool blog post about creating my mission statement. And I liked this post so much, I thought I'd re...

The third person on my Lunch Project is the ridiculously talented Kenneth Branagh. I first saw him in his version of Henry V, released ...

*blows dust off of blog* *cough choke* Sorry it's been so long, everyone. There is something about the winter season that makes me...

My favorite vampire in literature (other than my very own Valerie Tate , if I may be so immodest), is Joseph Le Fanu's Carmilla . ...

Here's a  post from December 2009. Yeah, I've been here a while now! *** Gilgamesh and Enkidu The most powerful myths are a...

Note: I am currently at the Romance Writers of America National Conference. While I'm gone, I'm reposting some of my older blog entr...

This past Christmas, I was thrilled to receive the complete Wonder Woman series, starring Lynda Carter. I could barely contain myself. Wou...

(Previous post here ) Now you have have some (more or less) randomly generated numbers. You are ready to start building your character...

I'm always looking for ways to stimulate my brain. This past weekend, I got a wonderful shot of creativity from an unexpected source. ...

Even though I've turned in my manuscript and I'm ostensibly taking this week off, I'm still working. I've started brainstorm...

Hello again! I'm back and ready to write again. It's time to return to my characters' sexual fantasies and see what they reveal....

I've written about big penises, Turkey, Muses, and International Woman's Day.  I figure now is a good time to get back on my subje...

Fu dogs are an excellent example of Threshold Guardians. One of my favorite archetypes is the Threshold Guardian. The Guardian serves as...

A note as I go along with this series. The best way to think of an archetype is a role that a character plays, not as a description of who t...