Writing Workshop with Kim & Renee
The Writer's Journey
The Hero's Journey Study Guide
The Writing Workshop Exercise
Map your Novel according to Vogler’s The Hero Journey.
Last episode we mapped all 12 steps of Christopher Volger’s Hero’s Journey (as presented in his book, The Writer’s Journey) to J.R.R. Tolkien The Hobbit. As you can see from Renee’s show notes, they lined up pretty well. But what about a story not written by a British scholar steeped in mythology and folklore? For this workshop, we put Kim’s soon-to-be-published novel, Our Comeback Tour is Slaying Monsters, through the same analysis, to mixed success.
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Answering the Call to Adventure
How do you shift your book’s hero from their nice, cozy ordinary world into the adventure? According to Christopher Vogler’s, The Writer’s Journey, you have them answer the call....