The Hero's Journey
1st September 2021 — 7:00pm to 8:30pm — Online
The Hero’s Journey is the writer’s map, providing all that is vital to brilliant, page-turning storytelling in a few key milestones. In this evening masterclass, author, editor and academic Kylie Fitzpatrick uses contemporary examples to highlight the patterns that define some of our greatest stories, and encourages you to assess which of these apply to your own writing.
This is an opportunity to use the Hero’s Journey as a check-list for your own work, and a means of developing a rescue plan if you’ve been unable to put your finger on why your narrative doesn’t quite work. You’ll be encouraged to ask key questions of your heroines and heroes, as well as their quests. What makes them leave the familiarity of their safe, ordinary life and go into their version of the unknown? And does your reader want to go along as your plot unfolds?
This is a session open to writers of all genres and experience. The six key stages of the Hero’s Journey are about character – and therefore story – progression, so whether the map of your protagonist leads to the ends of the earth or just to the bottom of the garden, the same guidance applies. And all in the hope of searching for the same outcome: to become an author of a journey that will grip readers from first page to last.
This is an opportunity to use the Hero’s Journey as a check-list for your own work, and a means of developing a rescue plan if you’ve been unable to put your finger on why your narrative doesn’t quite work. You’ll be encouraged to ask key questions of your heroines and heroes, as well as their quests. What makes them leave the familiarity of their safe, ordinary life and go into their version of the unknown? And does your reader want to go along as your plot unfolds?
This is a session open to writers of all genres and experience. The six key stages of the Hero’s Journey are about character – and therefore story – progression, so whether the map of your protagonist leads to the ends of the earth or just to the bottom of the garden, the same guidance applies. And all in the hope of searching for the same outcome: to become an author of a journey that will grip readers from first page to last.
Booking & payment
The workshop fee of £30 (incl. VAT) is payable in full online.
This is a live online event which will be presented using video conferencing software. Joining instructions and full guidance will be provided by the W&A Team a week before the event start-date.
Event materials will be made available to attendees for a time-limited period after the event at the author's discretion.
Please note that payment instalment plans are available for all W&A events, writing courses and editing services.
Contact W&A Admin on writersandartists@bloomsbury.com so that we can find a payment schedule that works for you.
The workshop fee of £30 (incl. VAT) is payable in full online.
This is a live online event which will be presented using video conferencing software. Joining instructions and full guidance will be provided by the W&A Team a week before the event start-date.
Event materials will be made available to attendees for a time-limited period after the event at the author's discretion.
Please note that payment instalment plans are available for all W&A events, writing courses and editing services.
Contact W&A Admin on writersandartists@bloomsbury.com so that we can find a payment schedule that works for you.
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