►Character-Crafting & the Enneagram

The dead horse has rotted to its splintered bones, and still people are beating it: “You need realistic, interesting, nuanced and believable characters that are compelling.”  Thanks.  Also in the news, the world is not flat.  OK, so while it is tiresome to hear, it remains true:  Flat/2-dimensional characters sink novels.  What should we do to prevent it?  Only read a dozen good books on the subject and ponder it as we write each book for the rest of our lives.  Helpful?  Right.

I’ve always been interested in personality inventories.   Some are crap, of course, filled with trite tautologies.  For several years I had held the Meyers-Briggs as the top of the list, and I still respect it.

But the one tool I want to recommend for your character-crafting work shed:  The Enneagram.  It is, in my opinion, the best personality (more…)

November 8, 2013 | Categories: ►The Craft of Writing | Tags: artist, author, character, character arc, character creation, create, development, Don Richard Riso, Enneagram, Enneagram of Personality, fantasy, fiction, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Naranjo, novel, novel writing, people, personality, write, writer, writing | 1 Comment