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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Tests, Allies, and Enemies, Oh My!
What really happens between “accepting the call” and facing the big bad? Christopher Vogler's The Writer's Journey skims through this crucial story phase with vague talk of Tests, Allies,...