This is K.M. Wylant and you are listening to the six hundred fifth episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors Podcast.

I hope you enjoy this week's episode 9 negative character arcs in the Eniagram.

The Eniram personality theory is a wonderful tool for writers.

Beneath the surface of these systems nine types, you can find development guides that include all the working parts of solid

transformational character arts. Last week we discussed the positive character arcs in the anyram. Today we're going to look at the

flip side nine negative character arcs in the Enigram system. As a personal development tool, the Eniagram can help us identify first which of the nine types best suits our own tendencies.

And from there we can use it to bring awareness

to any number of our own pain points,

growth factors, and potential blind spots.

But there is much more to the anagram than just that, particularly as presented by

Don Richard Risso and Russ Hudson in their groundbreaking book personality types.

The Enagram also offers several vertical maps of progression and

regression within each type.

In short, it can offer hints as to where someone, ourselves or our characters, may be sitting

within a spectrum of mental and emotional health.

For our own personal use, the aniagram can help us move higher up the ladder toward optimal health

to achieve positive character arcs.

And that's what we looked at last week. As authors, however, we also sometimes

need to write about characters who are headed in the opposite direction, away from health. In character arc speak, the thematic movements of a

positively arcing character will be away from a lie or limiting belief and

toward a more expansive and liberating truth.

Meanwhile, a negatively arcing character well be moving away from the stories

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