Back in 2014, before my confidence in everything I once knew was shattered by doing my PhD, I taught a class in archetypes for writers at North Seattle College’s Continuing Education Department. As part of the marketing for my class, I was interviewed for their blog. Well, as I no longer teach there, that post…
Once-beloved words like “story” and “narrative” have been co-opted into the business world, and so too has “archetype.” It was inevitable. I was taking a seminar for entrepreneurs today and they were going on about “your business’ personality archetype” and “your ideal customer archetype!” No. Stop it now. It was very hard not to say…
On a winding road through the Pennines, halfway between Sheffield and Manchester, there’s a tavern rather originally called the Halfway Inn. In the face of such razor wit, the locals have taken to calling it the Disappointed Virgin.
Update – 24 February 2020: As the original blog post containing the entirety of the interview is no longer in the NSC:CE website, I have provided a full copy of the interview, only slightly updated, here. It is part of my Archetypes in Myth and Writing series. My dear readers who do not follow me…