Storytelling, how to make a reader to fall in love p2

CONTINUATION ABOUT A HERO’S JOURNEY AND MORE NONSENSE

We can use both ideas, the chosen hero and the everyday hero. The thing is that, if we choose the chosen one strategy, it is forbidden to enounce «it has to be you». We need to force our heroine to do it but never say it. If you do, if you use the pointing finger; a more experienced reader will abandon your piece. Think Frodo. No one said he had to do it. He just realized no one else could. It was too much temptation to the men. Too onerous for the elves. And too dangerous for them all if Gandalf did.

On the other side, the side of the «everyday person» hero; they are not heroic in the same way. They are heroic by solving an everyday small calamity. They face things like webservers disappearing, video rendering melting away to a broken memory card, a problem in Excel, decide where to eat, how to quench thirst in hell (temperatures over the 35°C[1] and we know as plot. For the plot is bullying our character. Yes, we bully our character. And readers do enjoy it no matter how much they protest.

AN EXCEPTIONAL DAY

See? No matter how common the problem, we won’t use a typical day as reference.

In the video, the normal average Joe discovers the product/service/ company as salvation… I mean as the magical object. Link is given an Ocarine to travel time; we’re given a good smelling fabric softener to fend off the dull day.

Merriam discovers she loves writing and she meets WordPress (this is not advertising, if anyone proves other platform even better I’ll move ASAP) and the epiphany echoes the skies. Truth is, it was the first time I saved money to buy something I had reflected on. And of waiting to see if the idea was still there by the time I had collected the money. I also had that time you think what the heck was I good at. I could only think I love reading and hoarding plots… And this I wasn’t supposed to tell you.

To summarize. That day in the life of our common hero, he has to be inspired by lighting; the lettuce may be or something that breaks that mediocrity of everyday. Magic happens then and there. In a discreet way.

And since magic runs out, it is time to shut up my thumbs on the phone’s screen. It’s time to go see what’s in the inexistent fridge to gulp down or take a nap.

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Note: I think Campbell’s book is worth reading. I’m only going to note that sometimes, I do need the «easy» version to compare* When I was as doing the Yonseo English course online in Coursera, I was supposed to watch first the video to read the class document and answer five questions… All planned to be done in half an hour! I had to transcribe the document to my notebook (not that notebook, an analogue paper notebook by handwriting), answered the quiz and watched the video at the end so I could start to understand what was going on. Otherwise I wouldn’t start to fathom what was the class about…* to get things because I’m not as smart as I’d like to think. This is the «easy» version. The webinarist summarizes it all in a bulleted version that’s a lot shorter… Yet, as Ikram Antaki said: nothing worth is ever easy. Not love nor culture. Nor writing.

Pasto kalo.

[1][1] It doesn’t matter how much English I could speak, my mind is tailored to units measured to the tenths. 95°F). Something the webinarist calls «believable» in the art of building walls or obstacles for our average Jane *As if the heroic exploits or fantasy heroes are not believable…