![]() ![]() Those are the good points.Īs for the bad, there is plenty to skip and skim through – mainly the sections that try to tell you how to write such a book. What this book does well is simple: it takes famous monomyths and points out similarities (the clichés). So what are some examples of the monomyth? Think Star Wars, or Lord of the Rings, or Harry Potter - Those big epics where a hero faces some great face of evil.įalling somewhere between a paint by the numbers “how to” and a choose your own adventure story, this book lays out in simple terms the formula for creating this age old story. As far as I know, the term comes from (or at least is strongly associated with) Joseph Campbell who wrote a popular book in 1949 called The Hero with a Thousand Faces. This book is about the monomyth, which is essentially a pattern of storytelling found in stories around the world. ![]()
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