Tami D. Cowden

Caro LaFever

Sue Viders

The Ultimate Guide to Video Game Writing and Design goes way beyond the basics. The authors, top game designers, focus on creating games that are an involving, emotional experience for the gamer. Topics include integrating story into the game, writing the game script, putting together the game bible, creating the design document, and working on original intellectual property versus working with licenses. Finally, there's complete information on how to present a visionary new idea to developers and publishers. Got game? Get The Ultimate Guide to Video Game Writing and Design.

Sixteen Master Archetypes

The Complete Writer's Guide to Heroes & Heroines

Originally published: Hollywood, CA: Lone Eagle Pub., c2000.

The Complete Writer's Guide to Heroes and Heroines

Travel writer Nina Kerensky refuses to give up her freedom for any man, but she wants her grandmother to be happy. So she creates an imaginary husband a surgeon named Steve. Grams, anxious to finally meet her elusive grandson-in-law, plans to surprise Nina by showing up on the cruise the happy couple are supposed to be taking. Nina needs a husband fast! Veterinarian Steve Tabor is out of the husband business. He wants no part of any woman who tells whoppers but sweet and fun-loving Nina really floats his boat. He can't turn down the prospect of being her shipmate for seven days and seven nights. Pretending wedded bliss is not all smooth sailing. Rough waters lie ahead for the couple pretending to be honeymooners.

Cruising for Love

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. - 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.

Tami D. Cowden

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