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How to Write A Heroine's Journey course
Oct. 25th, 2018 11:28 pmThis Facebook post by Heather Flores came to my attention via the PDX NaNo Facebook group. The course mentioned herein on the Heroine's Journey comes in mini and maxi; the mini version is like four days long and, while the suggested donation is $27, one can (I did) sign up for free. (I'm afraid to ask how much money the maxi is...)
I just finished day one, and I can already tell this is going to have intriguing consequences on my NaNo project. Because Flores is right: a feminist story doesn't reenact kyriarchal models.
( I'm not arguing there's anything objectionable enough to bar everyone from doing the thing about writing stories that *do* partially reenact kyriarchal models. )
...So my NaNovel? Miraculous Ladybug fanfiction. I hesitate to say ML is a magical girl anime, but I can't picture ML existing substantially in its present form if Sailor Moon hadn't, either. Cartoon violence is pretty much part of the package.
But, you know, let's think about this. My outline's kind of light on the fourth quarter action plot anyway; I know how things play out emotionally, more or less, but in terms of character actions and dialogue, I'm a lot less sure. So I might could change my outline so that one of the fourth quarter realizations is that canon-typical violence won't solve this problem. So that the happy ending needs the characters to resolve things through cooperation and communication. So that the protagonists' motivations aren't what they want to obtain or to defeat, but what they want to know or to change.
*eyes canon* ...yeah, this is gonna be amusing.
But I think I can do it.
( footnotes )
I just finished day one, and I can already tell this is going to have intriguing consequences on my NaNo project. Because Flores is right: a feminist story doesn't reenact kyriarchal models.
( I'm not arguing there's anything objectionable enough to bar everyone from doing the thing about writing stories that *do* partially reenact kyriarchal models. )
...So my NaNovel? Miraculous Ladybug fanfiction. I hesitate to say ML is a magical girl anime, but I can't picture ML existing substantially in its present form if Sailor Moon hadn't, either. Cartoon violence is pretty much part of the package.
But, you know, let's think about this. My outline's kind of light on the fourth quarter action plot anyway; I know how things play out emotionally, more or less, but in terms of character actions and dialogue, I'm a lot less sure. So I might could change my outline so that one of the fourth quarter realizations is that canon-typical violence won't solve this problem. So that the happy ending needs the characters to resolve things through cooperation and communication. So that the protagonists' motivations aren't what they want to obtain or to defeat, but what they want to know or to change.
*eyes canon* ...yeah, this is gonna be amusing.
But I think I can do it.
( footnotes )