Fallen Heroes Sixteen Master Villain Archetypes edition by Tami D Cowden Reference eBooks
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The villain is the hero of his own story - and is every bit as important as the heroic characters.
This book contains the lectures and exercises from Tami Cowden's popular online class on villain archetypes. The workshop identifies and examines the motivations of the 16 literary villain archetypes, and shows what happens when heroes and heroines turn to the dark side.
Here's what participants have said about the workshop
-I really enjoyed this class. Seeing these archetypes spelled out like this really gives perspective instinct does not.
-Not only did this give me some really good tips on villain archetypes, but seeing the thought process behind creating a character for the archetypes helped me with your hero/heroine archetypes as well.
-WONDERFUL class, again!!! It was quite a thrill figuring out which archetype matched up with the villianess of my WIP ) . I have your exclamation about motivation stuck to my wall, just as a reminder.
--I did get a chance to apply this to my characters. I put a lot more thought into my characters' motivations and I think I will have a stronger book for it. The workshop really helped me make a more consistant characters and to work through how my characters act.
-I'm having trouble getting a handle on my villain in my next book, and these archetypes are really helping me.
-The exercises were enlightening as well as a fun way to get into the heads of these characters.
- As always happens when I take one of [Tami's] classes, you have given me good ideas for use in my current WIP and I'm certain I'll be using some of the others archetypes in future works.
Fallen Heroes Sixteen Master Villain Archetypes edition by Tami D Cowden Reference eBooks
Well. After reading all the negative reviews (negative about the errors and editing, not content), I almost didn't buy this. Which JUST goes to show that you CANNOT base your decisions entirely upon reviews. Since I'd been working through the Hero & Heroine Archetypes again (I've had it a long time, but right now is packed deep in storage, so I bought another copy) and remembered once again how impressed I was with it, and how helpful the information is, I took a giant leap of faith and got this Villains Archetypes one... and I am SO glad that I did!!! There were not the loads of errors i'd expected; clearly the edition h as been cleaned up since those were written (at the time of this writing, September 2016). So ignore those negative reviews about the editing, and instead focus on all the wonderful things they said about the content, because it's so true, and WAY helpful. I'm not actually writing a villain; I have a hero with a very dark side and I thought this would help me to delve into that side of him, and it does, very much so! Also incredibly helpful are the few exercises at the end of the book... particularly the physical descriptions bringing forth some ideas that probably might never have occurred to me! :)Product details
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Fallen Heroes Sixteen Master Villain Archetypes edition by Tami D Cowden Reference eBooks Reviews
I specifically went searching for a book by Cowden after having found her book on hero archetypes SOOOOOO helpful. I was not disappointed. Not only does she break down the various villain archetypes for both male and female, but she relates them to the "fallen hero" from which they derive. This was super helpful in drawing my villain for my upcoming book. Well worth the read and worthy of being one of my "resource" books from now on.
I was torn between a 2 or 3 star rating. Let me explain. This is really an excellent book (worthy of 5 stars--maybe even an impossible 6th star) the sole purpose I even bought this book was because of Tami's excellent contribution to "The Complete Writer's Guide to Heroes & Heroines" Sixteen Master Archetypes which she co-authored with Caro LaFever and Sue Viders.
That book is the Gold-Standard of character creating---the stuff that makes them tick.
I immediately jumped on this book the moment I discovered it. I can do heroes fairly well using the above mentioned book, but villains (although much more fun to write are trickier if you can't generate sympathy for your devil) so I figured this book would help me.
Ah, but here's the dilemma, the catch-22, if you will...this book is absolutely STUFFED with hideous typos and other embarrassing mistakes.
Really. No lie, no joke, no mistake. It's like trying to wade through really tall, unruly grass in a long abandoned field.
These mistakes prove a very serious truth...are you ready??
Anyone can make an error, but the error only becomes a mistake if left uncorrected. Did Tami even bother to proof-read this book?
Not to be too harsh, but I have major problems with grammar (for me, it's the whole subject-verb agreement thing and the proper use of apostrophes especially where IT is involved) but I do make every effort to fix my boo-boos.
Sadly, the information in this book is too helpful to send it back and request a refund. Having said that, it is also hideously overpriced to endure the brazen sloppiness to study it.
My advice to Tami you really NEED to replace this lemon with an updated---professional version.
My advice to the readers If you need help with the bad-guys in your stories, this is a good book (but not one you will feel all warm and fuzzy about buying) no, rather you will feel somewhat cheated because you spent money on a necessary book that reads like a chimpanzee on crack hammered it out because Tami didn't care enough about quality control.
So, in conclusion this book is worthy of 5 stars for the information it offers, but also equally worthy of 1 star (and ONLY because 0 stars wasn't an option) for the glaring errors salted rather generously throughout.
So, I figure halfway between 0 and 5/6 would be a 2 or 3---so, sadly, it's a 2.
I had higher expectations for this book---and hopefully, a cleaned-up, more professional version will come along.
PROS Like The Complete Writer's Guide to Heroes and Heroines, which this book is based on, the information here is decent enough. It paints 16 villain archetypes in broad strokes, including ideas on what turns them into villains, their individual strengths and weaknesses (at least two each), and what motivates them to do what they do. There are 8 male and 8 female villain archetypes with Movie and TV examples given, each given their own 5-7 page chapter. A minor effort is made to show how each archetype can be used as an annoyance to your hero instead of a deadly adversary, which is helpful if you are writing comedy, romance, children's books, or YA fiction. 5 writing exercises are provided in the back and they seemed more or less sensible ways to get inside your villain's head.
As in other writing books, probably the best piece of advice repeated here is "The villain is the hero of his own story." He thinks he's doing the right thing (even if it's just for himself or those he cares about) and never thinks of himself as evil--otherwise, all you've got is a two-dimensional cartoon stereotype.
CONS Missing from this book that was present in The Complete Writer's Guide to Heroes and Heroines are generous examples of how each villain interacts with the other archetypes (heroic or villainous) and I found this absence annoying, particularly when trying to use the two books together. Also, while you can definitely use this book without the first, there are references to heroic archetype terms from the first book that are not really explained except as being the opposite of the villain in question. Not a problem if you have the first book, and simply annoying if you don't. I suspect the reason why a better attempt was not made to tie these two books more closely together is because this was a solo work (the first book had three authors collaborating), so maybe there were some copyright issues involved? Just guessing.
The cover image and graphic design are laughably generic and awful (obviously a POD vanity press template); it certainly doesn't inspire confidence in the author's professionalism or jazz me into wanting to buy or display her book. And it definitely doesn't scream, "Ooh! Villains and genius advice inside!"
The author did a horrible, sloppy job editing this book and it is riddled with embarrassing typos and formatting errors from beginning to end. Honestly, it's like she just didn't care. What's ridiculous is anybody with half-a-brain could have caught and fixed these errors given an hour or two. That said, the interior layout is all right. Despite the glaring errors, it's a quick read and easy to find the information you're looking for.
SUMMARY If you want a book like this, it gets the job done in as few pages as possible. Used in conjunction with The Complete Writer's Guide to Heroes and Heroines, I'd bump the rating to 3.5. If you enjoyed the first book, this one is worth picking up. However, I think the first book and this one should be combined into a new revised edition that cleans up the typos and addresses archetype interaction more.
OTHER OPTIONS If you're looking for more archetype options, I recommend 45 Master Characters, Revised Edition Mythic Models for Creating Original Characters. It's very similar to these books, except it has more archetypes because it includes both heroes, sidekicks, and villains. As a bonus (worth the price of the book alone), the back of it is made up of explaining (step-by-step) the differences between the hero and heroine's mythic journey and includes cheat sheets outlining the gender differences at each stage of the journey. Invaluable if you subscribe to the Joseph Campbell The Hero with a Thousand Faces (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell) story structure model (the feminine version is The Heroine's Journey). These models are clarified and repurposed specifically for writers in The Writers Journey Mythic Structure for Writers, 3rd Edition and The Virgin's Promise Writing Stories of Feminine Creative, Spiritual and Sexual Awakening.
Well. After reading all the negative reviews (negative about the errors and editing, not content), I almost didn't buy this. Which JUST goes to show that you CANNOT base your decisions entirely upon reviews. Since I'd been working through the Hero & Heroine Archetypes again (I've had it a long time, but right now is packed deep in storage, so I bought another copy) and remembered once again how impressed I was with it, and how helpful the information is, I took a giant leap of faith and got this Villains Archetypes one... and I am SO glad that I did!!! There were not the loads of errors i'd expected; clearly the edition h as been cleaned up since those were written (at the time of this writing, September 2016). So ignore those negative reviews about the editing, and instead focus on all the wonderful things they said about the content, because it's so true, and WAY helpful. I'm not actually writing a villain; I have a hero with a very dark side and I thought this would help me to delve into that side of him, and it does, very much so! Also incredibly helpful are the few exercises at the end of the book... particularly the physical descriptions bringing forth some ideas that probably might never have occurred to me! )
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