Etiqueta: the hero’s journey

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    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.

    Would you like to re charge my magical counter by giving some love to this blog? Like this or suscribe. In case you desire to damage my hp counter, you only have to comment in hate.

    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…

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    Fish king drawing, fairy tale

    Such is the title of a webinar in Coursera on how to create a brand product… Is that related to the sacred Holy Literature? Ask Roger Domingo.

    Steer away from my poor taste joke[1]. The true thing is that other people, the ones who don’t write for a living; are learning or have learnt how to tell stories. Are they learning something different to what’s taught in creative writing? Is it worth knowing and comparing to the things I’ve read?

    DOES EVERYONE WRITE FOLLOWING THE SAME PROCESS?

    One of the basic ideas if this blog is: not everybody writes with the same process. Thus, we must search and try different ones till we find the one that becomes us. No matter how unorthodox it sounds.

    This blog will nonsense about magic and science to find out if the moon has to be be crescent or waxing or whatever; to be concocted in the goblet of the writing potions… Maybe in more than one go to keep it short and readable.

    THE WEBINAR AND THE BIBLE

    Before anything else; would you prefer to do the webinar instead of reading me? I mean; I’m good at explaining but…I can’t be the best of the best for the simple reason that we all are different. You might think you and I don’t belong in the same scenario because you don’t agree with me and that’s enough for you to look up for another writing guy. Freedom of choice does exist and I wouldn’t be the person I want to be, if I didn’t shown you the option. This is a free blog and you can make questions or go see other things…

    Starting from the beginning. The webinarist person starts by claiming the bible as one of the strongest plots. I ignore if he means it as the History of how it was written (for Hebrews, a historical record was not very different from their religious point of view) or if he means the group of tales that could clearly be tracked to Sumer copies to accommodate to the first remakes or inspired by narration. All in order to acquire national identity in an area surrounded by bigger empires. (Some ate pig, some worshipped the cat and the others placed animal heads into their gods..). There had to be a way to be different and remain thick and united.

    Since the Bible ain’t the first bookbound (tabletbound?) or recorded plot, but the Epic of Gilgamesh that contains all the three little parts of plot: introduction, development and climax; one can hardly give him credit.

    Yet, considering that the first first recorded plot, can change any minute thanks to Archaeology; I won’t grow my discontent fangs. Plus, the webinarist is an expert online salesman (unlike me) and I’m no expert either. I just read and write a report so that I can understand what the honeycomb is that I’m reading. Which is a little lot less than brilliant but kinda fun. Because I’m fun.

    THE HERO’S JOURNEY

    The author, after some defining why and how to create content is a long and medium term sales strategy where you attract visitors and contacts; he goes to define storytelling as «the hero’s journey» or what Ronald B. Tobias calls a «Quest» plot… And Joseph Campbell studied as the Hero of the thousand faces.



    … In his book (the webinarits’s book) , the hero’s journey starts with a common person. An avatar character that can become you, me, anyone to make up a believable plot. Without the psychological dough of the social rite and in bulleted format.

    A total opposite of the usual «hero’s journey». In the quest of the hero, the hero or heroine, is a chosen person. Not just you or me but someone special.


    Link. In The Ocarine of Time, Link discovers he isn’t a kokiri like the others. He is the Time hero. Thus, he can get out of the forest. He can do things, he is a «doer», someone who can’t stay still against the adversity. Most of us would protest but do nothing. We usually admit our defeat against conglomerates, society and… Taxes.

    Unlike Merriam and her magical blog; in it, the heroine is a four eyed with no other redeeming quality than stealing time to her own addictions. Or force herself to read what she doesn’t understand at all.

    Indeed, this entry isn’t about me… The blog is mine. What to tell? Or better, what not to tell? So I should make a stop and add a

    TO BE CONTINUED

    Pasto kalo dear reader.          

    [1] Indeed making jokes is making fun of someone or something… Thus, it is uncomfortable no matter what. No wonder the last parody I watched was so lukewarm.