Emily’s Reviews > Writing Archetypal Character Arcs > Status Update

There is SO MUCH abstract language that I can only read it in small chunks. (I’m tempted to dnf/call what I’ve read good enough and mark it read, but I think I just need to set it down for today and finish the last bit tomorrow…)

I’m thinking that “too philosophical” is a decent description of how I’m feeling. It feels like I’m inadvertently getting told what a irl person’s progression in life should look like, and maybe it’s accurate, but it’s not what I came for when I picked up the book

This book is… more philosophical than I wanted, maybe? Something mildly frustrates me about it but I still can’t explain what exactly.

I have mixed feelings because like… this is genuinely useful, but I’m also not going to be using it for a while/who knows if or when I’ll use all the parts of the book, and there’s so much terminology to keep track of. 😅

(Also goodreads’ percentage estimate is way off because 189/368 pages is not 66%)

Villain arcs wheeeeee

Getting through all the shadow archetypes will take more time because I haven’t skimmed this part before and there’s a LOT of information

Hehehe Quinn is 100% a Crone and I love the descriptions because they’re so accurate

I think Sheeran is a Queen archetype… some of the King descriptions resonate but overall they don’t fit quite as well as the Queen descriptions