The Hero's Journey - Chris Vogler/Joseph Campbell
Chris Vogler has had more influence on “how I write” than any other screenwriting guru/teacher. If I have a “bible” to which I refer when problems arise, it is “The Writer’s Journey.” At heart it is Joseph Campbell’s ideas but I find Chris Vogler’s writing style more accessible and easier to follow. Personally, while I own a copy of the third edition, I prefer the first printing of the book, which explains itself less and gets more directly to the heart of the matter.
And that heart is, when one looks at the structure of stories that engage us and move us, there are patterns that recur so often, they can’t be ignored. Joseph Campbell constructed, and Chris Vogler refined a template that delineates the sequence of events into twelve steps. Nothing I say here will substitute for reading the book itself, but I want to share the Word document that I tend to use early in my storytelling process (and then revise as the story speaks itself out in my heart and in my head).
And that heart is, when one looks at the structure of stories that engage us and move us, there are patterns that recur so often, they can’t be ignored. Joseph Campbell constructed, and Chris Vogler refined a template that delineates the sequence of events into twelve steps. Nothing I say here will substitute for reading the book itself, but I want to share the Word document that I tend to use early in my storytelling process (and then revise as the story speaks itself out in my heart and in my head).
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