Tag: Linda Lappin

An important character to add for your protagonist

Sep 5, 2013

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Ace Baker

in fiction, novels, power punch, short stories, writing technique

Ok, in my last post, I promised the next one would deal with a character you want to add in for your protagonist. There are actually TWO that I’ll talk about. Think positives and negatives. For a muscle to get stronger, it has to push against something, a heavy weight. This weight is…
Katabasis and your narrative fiction

Sep 1, 2013

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Ace Baker

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In Linda Lappin’s article, “Your Journey to Hell and Back,” in the September 2013 edition of The Writer, she returns to Joseph Campbell’s classic text, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, to discuss KATABASIS: According to Campbell, in myths fairy tales and fictional narratives of mythic resonance, the hero’s or heroine’s descent to the…