Jim Hull's Story Fanatic

This is Story Fanatic, a collection of articles covering story structure and analysis for
creative writers. Published weekly.

Thursday, Feb. 11

The Only Archetypes You Need to Know

Protagonist portrays our initiative, Antagonist our reticence to change. Reason is our intellect, Emotion our passion. Skeptic is our self-doubt, Sidekick our self-confidence. Finally, Guardian represents our conscience and the Contagonist is temptation.

So simple, yet so elegant.

About This Site

Story Fanatic is a website dedicated to investigating the wonderful world of story. From story structure to theory, analysis to writing, the articles on this site are an effort by Jim Hull to explore why some stories work better than others. Since 2005, 314 articles have been written. Read more »

About the Author

Jim Hull loves great storytelling so much that he often spends more time writing about what makes great stories work rather than using that time to write his own material. Read more ⇒

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