Week 1 Merging Craft with Passion

‚ Genre expectation
‚ The story you want to write vs. the story you gotta write
‚ How the journey appears in real life
‚ Hero's Journey Reading: preface/forward through archetypes (to page 33)

Week 2 The Archetypes

‚ Using them as roles
‚ Variations and combinations
‚ Read: hero through trickster (pgs 35-80)

Week 3 The Journey-Part 1

‚ Begin in the Ordinary World
‚ Crossing the First Threshold (into the Special World)
‚ Paying attention to transitions
‚ Read: ordinary world to first threshold (pgs 81-134)

Week 4 The Journey Part 2

‚ The trials increase
‚ Using the Threshold Guardians
‚ Facing death
‚ Finding and winning the reward
‚ Read: tests, allies and enemies to reward (pgs 135-192)

Week 5 The Journey Part 3

‚ The chase is on – hero after villain or villain after hero
‚ The final confrontation and near death
‚ Return to the Ordinary World
‚ Read: the road back through return with the elixir (pgs 193-236)

Week 6 Nuances — Weaving Archetypes and Journey Stages
to Build Passionate Stores

‚ Using the archetypes as functions
‚ Identifying the journey stages in your story
‚ Heightening drama in your story
‚ Discussion of the Titanic analysis
‚ Read: looking back on the journey through the epilogues. (page 237-end)