Writers and Archetypes / Discovering Your Plot / 4:46

Archetypes invaded the world of writing decades ago. Just as an artist has her drawing box and a cook accesses her pantry. new writers—and experienced ones needed a refresher—need the archetypal frameworks in their writing kit.

Explorers will find multiple versions of archetypal charts, for plot and for characters. Social media and webinars abound with them. Numerous videos and blogs cover the basic information.

The Archetypal Story Pattern—ASP—is genius for the 12 stages of essential story scenes. We have many more scenes than these, of course, but the ASP gives up the story guidance so lacking in other types of plot structures.

In this section, we offer an introduction to Archetypal Story Pattern. In the next, we launch into the individual stages.

Gird your loins. The information is becoming intense! After this episode’s overview, we’ll cover each stage in deeper and richer detail in later episodes, all the way into the New Year.

TIMINGS

• 00:00 Welcome
• 00:39 Introduction
• 04:02 Joseph Campbell’s 17 Stages of the Hero’s Journey
• 06:47 Christopher Vogler’s 12 Stages / the Archetypal Story Pattern
• 09:10 Beginning / Middle / End
• 12:28 Last Words and Closing

Total Run Time :: 14:11

 

BOOK LINKS are to Amazon because I’m working quickly. You can also find these at Worldwide Distributors Everywhere.

Christopher Vogler’s The Writer’s Journey https://www.amazon.com/Writers-Journey-Anniversary-Mythic-Structure/dp/1615933158/

Joseph Campbell’s Hero with a 1,000 Faces https://www.amazon.com/Thousand-Faces-Collected-Joseph-Campbell-ebook/dp/B08MWW2VDL/

Carl Jung :: Gary Bobroff’s Knowledge in a Nutshell: Carl Jung https://www.amazon.com/Knowledge-Nutshell-psychoanalyst-unconscious-archetypes-ebook/dp/B082VJLVXR/

George Fraser The Golden Bough https://www.amazon.com/Golden-Bough-James-George-Frazer/dp/1692144219/

 

Links to M.A. Lee’s Discovering Your Plot, ebook format.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0838PTN49

https://books2read.com/u/bOJK6K

Links to a paperback 8 x 10 bundle for plot / characters / branding / sentence craft, called Discovering Your Writing https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08691892S

Trailer https://youtu.be/hTVQn92kNBk

 

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