A reflective questionnaire for writers exploring the AuthorKind Archetypes. This post offers a gentle way to notice where you are in the creative cycle, without defining who you are or how you should work.
I love how this questionnaire draws out the essences of all the archetypes. Right now my offerer is driving the articulator--I have a sharing deadline that's pushing me to make, make, make! Shaper is getting a word in here and there, but right now it's all about producing work to get out into the world.
Joshua, it sounds as if you are relating to the Archetypes in a way that I hoped would happen. I'm so happy they seem to resonate and hope that understanding where we are in our work gives us peace of mind or reason to move in another direction. Keep shining!
Franky, the Shaper is one of my favorite stages. Just remember we are'nt one type or another. Instead, as I see it, we are in one stage or phase or another. I take the test often randomly and sometimes as a check to see if I have sensed the change correctly. For instance a couple weeks ago, I was very between Incubator and Guardian. Today. I find myself still incubating but much more so a Gatherer. The thing I appreciate most about this system is that it is fluid rather than static.
Being in a Shaper phase, it seems you must be editing or refining some work. I wish you the very best--exciting!
Lol, I am all over the place. Which is exactly how I felt reading the archetypes. Some archetype systems I fall into a neat spot, or between two. Not with this one. Or maybe its just where I am at right now. Part of it is that I am doing three disticntly different projects -- fiction, history, and translation -- and they are all in very different phases -- incubation, ongoing, winding-down...
BTW, I am in process of translating Daodejing for myself, and I will indeed be launnching a "read it in the original Classical Chinese" substack this summer. I mentioned that to you a few months ago...
Ben, I think one of the things I am most pleased about this archetype system is that "being all over the place" is a real state we process through, especially we are working on several largely different projects. I truly felt the same when I first answered the reflective questions, but it made sense when I examined what I was actively working on.
And oh my gosh, I am deeply interested your Daodejing project. I look forward to the summer!!
I love how this questionnaire draws out the essences of all the archetypes. Right now my offerer is driving the articulator--I have a sharing deadline that's pushing me to make, make, make! Shaper is getting a word in here and there, but right now it's all about producing work to get out into the world.
The beaver is busy.
Joshua, it sounds as if you are relating to the Archetypes in a way that I hoped would happen. I'm so happy they seem to resonate and hope that understanding where we are in our work gives us peace of mind or reason to move in another direction. Keep shining!
I'm the shaper
Franky, the Shaper is one of my favorite stages. Just remember we are'nt one type or another. Instead, as I see it, we are in one stage or phase or another. I take the test often randomly and sometimes as a check to see if I have sensed the change correctly. For instance a couple weeks ago, I was very between Incubator and Guardian. Today. I find myself still incubating but much more so a Gatherer. The thing I appreciate most about this system is that it is fluid rather than static.
Being in a Shaper phase, it seems you must be editing or refining some work. I wish you the very best--exciting!
Yes, agreed, I'm just mostly D’s today. Very interesting though. I like it 😊
Lol, I am all over the place. Which is exactly how I felt reading the archetypes. Some archetype systems I fall into a neat spot, or between two. Not with this one. Or maybe its just where I am at right now. Part of it is that I am doing three disticntly different projects -- fiction, history, and translation -- and they are all in very different phases -- incubation, ongoing, winding-down...
BTW, I am in process of translating Daodejing for myself, and I will indeed be launnching a "read it in the original Classical Chinese" substack this summer. I mentioned that to you a few months ago...
Ben, I think one of the things I am most pleased about this archetype system is that "being all over the place" is a real state we process through, especially we are working on several largely different projects. I truly felt the same when I first answered the reflective questions, but it made sense when I examined what I was actively working on.
And oh my gosh, I am deeply interested your Daodejing project. I look forward to the summer!!