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I attend college and work as a freelance writer. I help dialogue for sitcom and I write for a scholarly journal on various inane topics. That is about all the productivity I can muster these days. I don't care much for college and would rather be taking online courses.
I find myself most skilled as a literary critic, but have tried my hand at more creative styles of writing. I am currently working on a novel.
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FUNdamentals of RPGs Part III
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Thanks for your insights! It was an interesting read. Have you ever considered writing your own article on the mythic and folk hero stories?
No, but sometime I might write an article about the art of writing reviews. I do realize that I have what many would call a tendency to be over generous in my reviews, but I see it as sorting through to find what's good in a work. People spend a lot of time creating these things and a critical review that is poorly done tends towards being disheartening.
A great critic once said, "Review as if your review is being reviewed, because it is."
FUNdamentals of RPGs Part III
Well,there are a few more details to the mythic struggle I would like to add.
The mythic hero is normally scarred at the end of the journey, like Frodo in the LOTR. He survives the journey, but will never be the same because he has a thorn in his side. Odysseys arrives home, but knows that he will soon be torn away from home again on another journey. Mythic heroes rarely complete their quest, but with massive personal costs.
"But wait a minute, Frodo isn't a mythic hero, he's a folk hero like Hans Solo," you may say. That is true. In the Lord of the Rings Aragorn is the mythic hero.
J.R.R. Tolkien reversed the traditional rewards for Frodo and Aragorn. Similarly, he used an anti-quest rather than a quest for his protagonists.
Both Star Wars and LOTR mixed the classic mythic structure and traditional folklore structures together with a character in the role of each.
Additionally, mythic stories tend to have what is known as the "Invocation" where the mythic hero receives divine power or help. The invocation can take many forms, when Captain Cisco get the Prophets to destroy a Dominion fleet in Deep Space Nine. A force of nature like a typhoon could be used as an invocation (similar to the Japan's Kamikaze.) Final Fantasy likes to use the Crystals to act both as the object of the quest and as the invocation.
Anyways, great article, thank you!
The mythic hero is normally scarred at the end of the journey, like Frodo in the LOTR. He survives the journey, but will never be the same because he has a thorn in his side. Odysseys arrives home, but knows that he will soon be torn away from home again on another journey. Mythic heroes rarely complete their quest, but with massive personal costs.
"But wait a minute, Frodo isn't a mythic hero, he's a folk hero like Hans Solo," you may say. That is true. In the Lord of the Rings Aragorn is the mythic hero.
J.R.R. Tolkien reversed the traditional rewards for Frodo and Aragorn. Similarly, he used an anti-quest rather than a quest for his protagonists.
Both Star Wars and LOTR mixed the classic mythic structure and traditional folklore structures together with a character in the role of each.
Additionally, mythic stories tend to have what is known as the "Invocation" where the mythic hero receives divine power or help. The invocation can take many forms, when Captain Cisco get the Prophets to destroy a Dominion fleet in Deep Space Nine. A force of nature like a typhoon could be used as an invocation (similar to the Japan's Kamikaze.) Final Fantasy likes to use the Crystals to act both as the object of the quest and as the invocation.
Anyways, great article, thank you!
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