Adventure!
Three Goals of the Hero
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The illustrations in Adventure! were done by my buddy who goes by the name of Tin Satellite, who has his own blog and merch store which you can visit at his website. It’s full of Retro Sci-Fi goodness, if that’s your thing. Enjoy!
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Kung Fu Panda is a terrific movie that relies on the standard form of old Martial Arts films from China and Hong Kong, especially those of Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan (who, incidentally, voices one of the characters). It also utilizes a lot of the tropes of sports movies, where the most common themes are…
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Now we’re faced with the ultimate stakes – life and death, not only for the hero and his friends, but for the world at large, and for the principles they fight for. The hero walks into the homeland of the Shadow, where the Villain has a decided advantage. He no longer has the guidance of…
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Now the hero is on his journey, the Ordinary World is a memory. He has no choice but to move forward. He has entered Unknown Lands, completely unaware of the terrain and the rules it operates by. Part 2 of the story is largely about how he learns to navigate this new world. Along the…
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Stories really begin in the Ordinary World. Everything is normal, nothing unusual for the people we meet at the beginning. Characters are engaging in their regular day, life is static. To understand these beginnings, and all other stages of the story, we must first meet our Hero. static: adjective Without motion or change The town…
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In many stories (but not all), a story starts before the beginning. This is called a prologue (pronounced PRO- log). A writer will have a small scene that takes place before the story really starts, sometimes many years before. The point of this scene is to show events that will affect the story once our…
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Now that a world has been built for the story, it has to be inhabited by characters, the people who live there. In the original text where he introduced The Hero’s Journey, Campbell said these myths were populated by characters he called archetypes, which are different kinds of people, each one representing something – feelings,…
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Some adventures take place in the world we live in, but stories also allow us to leave our normal life and go to an exotic land, one full of magic, places to explore, and things we don’t see every day. Stories in books are limited only by our imagination, and thanks to new computer techniques,…
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The events of stories are the skeleton of this book. The main text is about what happens. We’ll interrupt with a few special sections: Characters: as we explore the different events in the journey, our hero will encounter other people. As we defined it earlier, the people in a book, movie, or tv show are…
Adventure! 