Taking Monumental Risks

Writers must take risks to be successful.

Ten Tips on Writing and Creativity

Ten Tips to Keep You Inspired and Your Writing Jumpstarted!

So You Need Some Inspiration? Try Some RPC: Risk, Passion and Creativity!

How to release your creativity and get started writing your stories now!

Easy Screenwriting, Hero's Journey, Screenwriter

Just build a story around the Hero’s Journey. It is as simple and as difficult as that. If JK Rowling can do it, so can you. Yes, the Harry Potter series stories all mirror the same template, as does The Godfather, The Shawshank Redemption and a thousand other stories and films.

Storytelling and Creative Writing Using Structure and the Hero's Journey

Structure is valuable to creativity on a number of levels:

Screenwriting Workshops and Courses Are Totally Unnecessary!!! Use the Hero's Journey

Like all workshops, the major benefit normally derives from the interaction with other people. Further, a workshop may instil a degree of discipline – the lecturer may take the potential screenwriter through numerous stages that result in a words-on-paper first draft. But, generally, the drawbacks outweigh the positives:

Screenwriting, Screenplays, Monomyth, Hero's Journey

The Monomyth is another term for the Hero’s Journey. The concept derives from the idea that there is, in fact, only one story and that it is retold universally and cross culturally. There are at least 188 stages to this story.

Publish or Perish: It's Not Only for Academia, Part 2

The journey of being a writer is truly the biggest payoff ot all. In the second and final segment of the series we explore different aspects of the writer's journey, it's challenges and its rewards and look into the passions that drive us to write.

Refusing The Hero's Journey : Screenwriting Tips, Tricks and Tools

One critical element of the hero's journey is Refusal. If the hero is willing, then refusal often comes in the form of an interdiction and / or warning. If the hero is naturally unwilling, then an unbearable antagonism often pushes the hero into the adventure.

Story Structure - The Value of a Shape Shifter

Most successful stories and screenplays include a shape shifter. The shape shifter has many functions including:

Hero's Journey - Master of the Two Worlds

The Master of the Two Worlds is in fact the Final Conflict between the hero and the antagonism. Here, the hero has developed sufficiently to be master of both his Old and his New World. There are a number of elements that are common in this stage of the Hero's Journey:

So You Thought that Was Funny, Did You?

In humour, timing is everything - the comment that was funny when you thought of it may not be by the time you come to say it... or just plain wrong.

Film and Screenwriting Course; Hero's Journey - Polarization

Once the Hero has entered the World of the Transformation, there tends to be a specific sequence polarizing the hero from his antagonisms.