Month: January 2021
The Warrior Archetype is tremendously empowering.
Read MoreWe were talking last week about one of the qualities of the Inciting Incident, the moment in Act One when the story actually STARTS. We said that
Read MoreWhy has the genre of the American Western retained such power generation to generation?
Read MoreThe hero in American Westerns (and Samurai tales and post-apocalyptic movies like “Mad Max”) is the Warrior Archetype personified, at least in its latter-day configuration of the solitary man of violence, who lives by his own code and operates as a law unto himself.
Read MoreI wrote this in Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t:
Read MoreWhat lies beyond the Warrior Archetype? In this episode we revisit the moment in India when Alexander the Great’s army reached the limits of its conquests and turned around for home.
Read MoreThe yogis of Alexander’s India sat in silence, naked in the sun.
Read MoreOne of the things a writer realizes when she first becomes aware of her own Resistance—her internal, diabolical pull toward self-sabotage—is that it’s a dangerous world … not just “out there,” but “in here.”
Read More“I have conquered the need to conquer the world” means “I have defeated the dark side of the Warrior Archetype within me.”
Read MoreSome protest war. Others, like Telamon, embrace it even as they hate it.
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