Your Hero’s Journey
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Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey is a well-known story structure where the hero leaves the comfort of normal life, adventures into the unknown, and overcomes life-or-death challenges in order to achieve their goal. They then return to their normal life forever changed.
For her recent webinar, Kendra Levin used the Hero’s Journey as a way for creatives to keep their creativity alive through intense times like now. With pandemic, elections, remote-learning, job insecurities and so much more it is easy to undervalue our writing projects and ourselves as writers. Levin says instead we should frame ourselves as the hero on a journey toward our personal goal. Having a clearly defined mission - both as a writer and for the project - will give you a loadstone to hold you on course despite the tempest of life’s many distractions.
Want to know more? Check out her twitter or website or better yet buy Kenrda’s book The Hero Is You on Amazon or Indiebound
