This is K.M. Wyland and you are listening to the helping writers become authors podcast.

I hope you enjoy this week's episode,

Arctypal antagonists for each of the six archetypal character arcs.

Antagonists are an interesting. archaubtypal character arcs.

Antagonists are an interesting consideration for any writer. So often when we conceive or plot a story,

the antagonist may be an afterthought, especially in genre or plot-driven fiction, in which

the antagonist is less likely to be in a relationship with the protagonist and more likely to be a big bad of some sort.

But in many ways the antagonist in any type of story is the point.

The antagonist is the reason there is a story at all.

Without the antagonist, without something to oppose the protagonist's forward progress,

or to prompt the protagonist's forward progress or to prompt the protagonist's growth through the

necessity for evolving personal and social paradigms.

We don't have much of a story, do we? At the least, we don't have much of a transformation.

And so, it is just as worthwhile to examine archetypal antagonists as it is archetypal protagonists.

Earlier this year I shared a lengthy series about archety

character arcs.

This series discussed certain archetypes of positive changes. type of

character arcs.

This series discussed certain archetypes of positive change,

negative regression, or stagnation,

and resting or flat arcs that interspersed the major

transformational cycles of the human life.

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