By Victoria Schmidt ISBN 1582975221; $14.99; 304 pages; Paperback Every novelist, screenwriter and oral storyteller faces the challenge of creating original and exciting haracters. Archetypes- mythic, cross-cultural models from which all characters originate- provide a solid foundation upon which to fashion new and vastly different story people. 45 Master Characters explores the most common male and female archetypes, provides instructions for using them to create your own original characters, and gives examples of how other authors have vrought such arechetypes to life in novels, flim and television. Worksheets are then included for writers to develop and map the lives of their own characters.