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#170: The Hero's Journey - Plot Theory Hello Lovelies - Weekly Writing Podcast For Writers by Author Rachel Cooper
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Hello and welcome back to the podcast, lovelies. Today we're going to talk about one of the most oft-repeated plot structures out there, which is The Hero's Journey. Also called the Monomyth, this plot method was developed by Joseph Campbell in which a hero who goes on an adventure, and in a decisive crisis wins a victory, and then comes home changed or transformed.
There are several interchangeable terms one associates with the Hero's Journey, and I will attempt to include and explain them, but in general, you can think of the Monomyth as as a (usually) circular diagram.
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Hello and welcome back to the podcast, lovelies. Today we're going to talk about one of the most oft-repeated plot structures out there, which is The Hero's Journey. Also called the Monomyth, this plot method was developed by Joseph Campbell in which a hero who goes on an adventure, and in a decisive crisis wins a victory, and then comes home changed or transformed.
There are several interchangeable terms one associates with the Hero's Journey, and I will attempt to include and explain them, but in general, you can think of the Monomyth as as a (usually) circular diagram.
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Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/author-rachel-cooper/message
9 min