Every story that has impressed the audience features proactive characters.

Whether they’re humans, supernatural creatures, heroes, or villains, fully developed characters drive narratives. The art of character development is essential to crafting characters that audiences ...

From the wise-cracking sidekick to the wily trickster, the just-out-of-reach love interest to the grizzled mentor, archetypal characters fit into age-old storytelling patterns. The most popular ...

I recall Sarah, a middle-aged woman, approaching me prior to a workshop I was about to deliver in Australia. She was excited, eager to share her news. She said she'd taken the VIA Survey six years ago ...

When you're trying to figure out which character types to put into your screenplay, you have to first consider what you need ...

David Heath is a List Writer from the UK specializing in video games, movies, TV shows, and the occasional anime. Fighting games have diverse rosters & archetypes like Shotos, Charge, Grapplers.

In the four decades I have worked in strategic leadership, I don’t recall seeing such an intensely divisive time, with blogs and posts casting leaders as either villains or heroes, renewing questions ...