tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53648168724216402582012-04-15T18:45:03.506-07:00This blog discusses the contents and meaning of my book "Archetypes for Writers: Using the Power of Your Subconscious."JVBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03306085967681776724noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5364816872421640258.post-71271135477252549542008-02-20T07:54:00.000-08:002008-02-20T07:55:42.759-08:002008-02-20T07:55:42.759-08:00

Marcel Proust & my book "Archetypes for Writers" March 4, 2007 By Jennifer Van Bergen "JVB" (Florida) Like others who've read and reviewed Proust's opus here, I did not read it in one consistent long read. I read the first ten pages and put it down for a year. I then read up to page 100 and put it down again for six months. Thereafter, pregnant with my first child,

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http://talentdevelop.com/writing-from-your-subconscious/Writing from your subconscious One of last year’s films, Pan’s Labyrinth, was acclaimed for its powerful story and richly beautiful as well as terrifying images. Writer and director Guillermo del Toro once commented, “When you have the intuition that there is something which is there, but out of the reach of your physical world, art and

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http://midwestbookreview.com/calbw/jun_07.htm#thea Archetypes for WritersJennifer Van BergenMichael Wiese Productions3940 Laurel Canyon Boulevard #1111, Studio City, CA 916041932907254, $22.95 www.mwp.comYears of training in theatre and decades of teaching lends to the author's unique approach of how to utilize personal archetypes to fuel stories – and how to find such archetypes. Screenwriters

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ARCHETYPES FOR WRITERSUsing The Power Of YourSubconsciousBy Jennifer Van BergenMichael Wiese ProductionsPaperback: 241 pagesList Price: £13.99ISBN: 1-932907-25-4You might think that this book is justanother retread of the Campbellianideas popularised by The Hero’sJourney, but you’d be very muchmistaken. Van Bergen resurrectsthe ancient skill of arkhelogy or“doing archetypes”: Discovering

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Friends,I will be on Steve Lendman News & Information Hour tomorrow from 1-2PM EST, accessible at www.themicroeffect.com (just go at about 1PM and click on "on air now"). I will be talking about my two books, which were written for two very different purposes and audiences. * For those of you who are interested in civil liberties, the Bill of Rights, the US Constitution, the UN Charter of Human

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I am posting a short article on using archetypes which quotes from my summary article. See all of Eby's excellent blogs listed at http://www.blogger.com/profile/12805466818218543932. JVBUsing Archetypes to Develop Complex CharactersBy Douglas Ebyhttp://theinnerwriter.blogspot.com/2007/03/using-archetypes-to-develop-complex.html/Author and Jungian analyst Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D. explains the

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The following is a response I wrote today on Amazon to a review of my book (linked below). Because several people have raised the point covered in the first paragraph, that is a general response.My response:I think it's important to point out what I repeatedly state in my book: that the first several chapters are optional reading. These chapters provide necessary foundational information that,

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http://www.writersstore.com/article.php?articles_id=813Archetypes for Writersby Jennifer Van BergenBetty Edwards writes in her book, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, that drawing is a global skill, made up of component skills. "Once you have learned the components and have integrated them, you can draw,” she says.The same is true of “doing archetypes,” which is the foundation for

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