The Lonely Planet Continues…

As of today, you can read Chapter 6 of The Lonely Planet - published on this site in PDF and epub formats.

My goal this year is to learn the ‘rules of writing’, to develop a bit of the basics of the craft of writing with this story. And enjoy the process.

A key part of that is learning the powerful plot beats of The Hero’s Journey. The Hero’s Journey is a timeless story structure that shows up again and again, in everything from greek mythology, to Star Wars. I’ve been most influenced by Vogler’s take in his book The Writer’s Journey.

The hero, has a call to adventure, and after refusing, meets a guide, and is forced across the threshold into the adventure. The hero faces tests, including a huge ordeal, and just when it seems they have lost it all, they overcome and return to their ordinary world, changed.

Chapter 6 brings our Hero to the threshold, and pushes him across. Or… is he pulled by a guide? You’ll have to read to find out!