Last night, I finished a major rewrite of the most problematic chapter in The Veil. I decided to unwind by playing some Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (Number 1. I just picked it up for a bargain). I’m a child of the 70’s. Star Wars was the first film I recall seeing in a theatre. […]
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Last week I saw the movie Sucker Punch. The movie focuses on Babydoll, a girl committed to an asylum when she accidentally kills her sister. Once in the asylum, Babydoll’s evil stepfather pays off an orderly to have the girl lobotomized. Babydoll, knowing her time is short, devises a plan to escape. The thing about
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Now we arrive at the end of the Journey. There’s a few important things to consider. The first one is, how is the Hero’s return going to change his ordinary world? Who needs to be punished and who will find freedom? What will our hero have learned about himself and the world? Will the elixir
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Our hero is running back to his ordinary world. Before he returns, there is one last threshold that must be crossed. If you recall, back when our hero crossed into this mysterious world, he was another person. Perhaps he was more naive, or weak, or egotistical. Through the trials he has endured in the other
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Our hero has crossed two major thresholds so far. The first brought him to the other world. The second delivered him to his ordeal. Now, he needs to cross a third. After the ordeal, our hero seized his reward and felt pretty good about himself. He celebrated, became a man, found love, recounted his amazing
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The hero has survived death. He is forever changed. Luckily, it’s time he was allowed to breathe. As I stated last time, the ordeal occurs about midway through the story. It often represents the hero’s opportunity to obtain the thing he has been seeking in the special world. Perhaps he came seeking a restorative elixir,
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Our hero has been through a lot. Now, he faces the greatest and darkest of moments, The Ordeal. The ordeal is about change. When this is over, our hero will never be the same. Often, the ordeal results in a symbolic death for our hero who is then reborn. Once the rebirth has occurred, he
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