Using Myth to Power Your Story

By: Christopher Vogler

Narrated by: Christopher Vogler

This delightful workshop covers how you can use the myths and fairy tales that link us all to give your story more oomph. Get ready to laugh while you learn, because the speaker is a natural storyteller and a witty observer of life. Whether you're creating a screenplay, a novel, a play, a computer game, a puppet show, or just an entry in your journal, your story will be richer, it will touch more people, and it will have more meaning and depth after you listen to Chris Vogler's talk.

Learn about:

The Hero's Ordinary and Special Worlds

The Four Major Movements of Any Story

The Cast of Characters: Hero, Mentor, Threshold Guardian, Herald, Shapeshifter, Shadow, and Trickster

©2002 Christopher Vogler (P)2002 Writer's AudioShop

Interesting, but I knew this already.

Any additional comments?

I already knew most of what was discussed here and was already using it in my writing. I have 45 Master Characters and it drew pretty much from that book.

This is really good

This is really good. It is what I was hoping for from The heroe’s two journey, that I didn’t really care for. But, this is great stuff. It is like having cliff notes to The Writer’s Journey.

The bad thing is the producers sign off, they say it is over and then the recording continues for another 40 minutes that is a repeat of an earlier part of the recording.

Another fine seminar.

Like THE HERO'S TWO JOURNEYS, which Vogler did with Michael Hauge, this is a recording of a seminar. In this one, Volger goes into greater depth talking about-- and giving examples of-- the hero's journey, as well as some of the archetypal characters the hero meets along the way. He gives many examples from well-known films, although he stresses the way a novelist can use the same information in his or her book. One nice addition is that many of the attendees of the lecture were able to ask questions about applying what Vogler taught to their own stories. Very enlightening.

Great advice

told with a dash of humor and a large helping of experience and practiced advice.

Still great advice

I met Christopher Vogler at a writer's conference years ago and followed his advice to write novels. He is still spot on. I highly recommend following his suggestions