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THREE KINDS OF PATTERNS TO FIND IN (OR WRITE INTO) FICTION

By: Creative Writing with the Cirmson League, Victoria Grefer

Today’s post is all about patterns in fiction and in creative writing. And here’s why:

Lately, I’ve been researchingthe Myers-Briggs classification I test as pretty much every time I take any Myers-Briggs test: INFJ.Turns out it’s rare (around 1% or less of the population).

A WHOLE lot of the basic INFJ description does apply aptly to me, if I’m honest. The good and the bad/the weaknesses. (Avoid confrontation, much????). But one of the coolest things I’ve noticed–an INFJ niche that I definitely fill–is an affinity for patterns.

INFJs see patterns when they exist. We might create them where they don’t. Our memories are largely pattern-structured: we remembers the patterns of the past. (Honestly, I see a real connection between patterns and my need for routine as well. I thrive with a routine. Always have. I don’t extemporize well and I am NOT impulsive. At all.)

I have definitely, always, loved patterns and have been apt to form/see them. In books as well as elsewhere. It’s one of the things that helped me as a graduate student in literature. I was able to “create” a pattern between multiple texts or sections of a text and use that to connect them, then write papers about the connection I had seen.

But, this is a creative writing blog. So this post is about patterns in fiction. I wanted to share what I feel are some of the most common patterns to be found in stories. Patterns we authors can make use of.

THEMATIC PATTERNS

This type of pattern generally revolves around one character. Perhaps a protagonist. It involves varying adventures or episodes, or plots and schemes, that might look different on the surface and seem unrelated, but ultimately have the same root cause:

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