on Helping Writers become Authors:

All art is necessarily both reflective and generative of the human experience. And in that way, all art both reflects and generates archetype.

Some stories do this more simply and obviously than others.

Those stories that we recognize as myth or fable are most blatantly archetypal.

But even hyper-realistic stories—when they are well done—offer up to us the archetypal truths of humanity.

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