The hero with a thousand faces

Create and write a fictional character sketch or profile: Characterization through names, body language, descriptions, roles, jobs, emotions, secrets, weaknesses and more.

Writer’s are always looking for models to either give their work structure, or to help them find themselves when they get lost in the writer’s journey. Below is a funny take on The Hero…

Star Wars provides a great introduction to the study of myths. It has some of the classic elements of the hero myth. Here's how I used the saga with my

Joseph Campbell was a phenomenal writer that explored the philosophy of the human experience. He is known for many of his books, but one more than others, "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" (1949). In this book, Campbell discusses the mythological archetype that many lead

The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949) by Joseph Campbell is the book that awakened in writers and storytellers in publishing and in screenwriting to the larger scope of mythology as metaphor and to the underlining structure of stories.

So I’ve caught the “True Detective” bug. Created and written by Nic Pizzolatto, starring Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson, and directed by Cary Fukunaga, it is some eye-popping, dialogue-rich…

The Hero's Journey is an archetypal story pattern, common in ancient myths as well as modern day adventures. The concept of the Hero's Journey was described …

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