The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Storytellers & Screenwriters - Softcover

Vogler, Christopher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0941188132 ISBN 13: 9780941188135

Publisher: Michael Wiese Productions, 1992

Synopsis

The Writer's Journey is a guide to the patterns of mythology that lie nestled in all narrative writing. Based upon the work of Joseph Campbell, it offers the reader a set of useful myth-inspired storytelling paradigms and step-by-step guidelines to plot and character development. One of Hollywood's top studio heads made the rough draft of this book required reading for his executive staff.

""..the perfect manual for developing, pitching and writing stories with universal human themes that will forever captivate a global audience"". -- Jeff Arch, screenwriter Sleepless in Seattle

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Review:

Christopher Vogler has served as a studio folklore specialist, and here comes up with a book that is, in one regard, much like the screenplays it seeks to strengthen: it's derived from other sources! An acknowledged distillation of, and meditation on, the work of Joseph Campbell, The Writer's Journey approaches the storyteller's craft as one of recounting the hero's mythic journey, replete with roadblocks and life lessons. But why the unspoken assent that movies hew to this structure, when we don't demand the same of plays or books? Could it be that the collective viewing of films is one of our last tribal rituals?

About this edition

• Publisher: Michael Wiese Productions
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0941188132
• ISBN 13: 9780941188135
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 289