Reddit reviews The Stories We Live By: Personal Myths and the Making of the Self

To add to this list I highly recommend the work of Dan McAdams, especially his Stories We Live By. McAdams is psychologist who has spent decades collecting the life stories of Americans and analyzing the patterns of their characters and arcs. This book and his work are not direct tips for writing per se, but I’ve found them really helpful for both grounding characters in more life-like archetypes and thinking about how people conceptualize themselves through internal stories. It might seem like a tall order when you’re just getting your grounding in developing characters, but for more interesting or layered stories it can be really powerful to think about how they’re all trying to enact their own story within the narrative (especially when the “reality” of the author doesn’t match their self-perception)

Anyways I can write a longer post on the specific framework of personality types McAdams develops if there’s any interest.