The Hero's Journey Story Structure for Fiction and Nonfiction Writing - Episode 2
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- Опубліковано 3 лип 2024
- In this video, we dive into a powerful story structure called the Hero's Journey that you can use to take both your fiction and nonfiction writing to the next level and make your writing more compelling and captivating to your readers. We look at Joseph Campbell's and Christopher Vogler's explanation of the 12-step story structure and see how you can use it to plot a screenplay, a novel, or a memoir or to structure an advertisement or blog post if you're a copywriter. ✍️
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**TIMESTAMPS**:
0:00 Intro
0:59 What is The Hero's Journey?
3:21 An Overview of The Hero's Journey
8:36 Nonfiction Writing & The Hero's Journey
11:35 Fiction Writing & The Hero's Journey
14:31 Final Thoughts
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Hi, friends! I hope you enjoy the video. I'd love to hear if you've used the hero's journey to structure your writing or if you're planning to use it for a future piece of writing. 🙂
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Good job breaking this down and simplifying it so well.
Thank you!! Glad you enjoyed it.
The Hero's Journey helps me to write better personal essays. It also enables me how to tell more engaging stories to friends. I'm planning to write a blog post in a near future. The video is helpful. Thanks.
Thanks for your comment, Timon! Love hearing how you've used the hero's journey.
Nicole, thanks so much for this excellent overview. I'm writing a sports memoir book and this is EXACTLY what I needed!! I love getting your emails! Thanks for you excellent guidance!
Thank you so much for your kind words, Mari! I'm so happy to hear that this will help you with your book. Wishing you all the best as you write it! :)
Big fan of Hero's Journey Story Structure. Thanks for explain it better for us. Now I can understand better. Also thanks for the recommendations.
Muchas gracias, Youssef. I'm happy to hear you found this video helpful.
Excellent video explainer, Nicole - thank you.
Thank you, Tony! Glad it was helpful.
I'm attempting to squeeze my memoir into this structure, and it's certainly harder than you make it sound, lol!
Haha, I felt the same way when I was plotting my novel. 😅 I imagine using it for a memoir really forces you to boil down the scenes you're going to include. Wishing you all the best as you write it!
Hi ! Great video, I'm looking to write a book and feel using this structure may be best. Do you do any coaching ? I'm considering assistance
Hey Nicole, I was just watching your riveting video on how to write a 5 paragraph essay. Although I found the video informative and helpful I couldn't help but feel misled. The video started with two ninjas, and I thought that the ninjas would be a major part of the video. After watching the video and realizing the ninjas would only have a limited role I am sorry to inform you that I can no longer watch these videos. Promises have consequences when they are not kept. I was promised ninjas, and I received very few ninjas.
I know this video is old, but I have a question. Does the mentor have to literally be a person? Or can it be an idea, experience, place etc? Thanks for making easy to understand videos!
So glad you enjoyed the video! No, the mentor doesn't have to be a person. It can be anything that gives the protagonist motivation, insights and training. For example, an object (like a book), or a code of ethics, or an experience from their past. You can also have multiple mentors throughout your story. I should probably make a video all about the mentor archetype.
@@InkwellMedia that makes sense, thanks for replying!