In Your Writing, Be the Bad Guy

The trickster archetype narrator and how to utilize it.

Katlyn Roberts
The Writing Cooperative
8 min readAug 2, 2022

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Photo by Peter Forster on Unsplash

“How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole.”
Carl Gustav Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul

Everybody wants to be liked. We want to be the heroes of our own stories. It's often why our main characters are the most difficult to…

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