Your senses are the vehicles for experience So you want to write a novel. You think of all your favorite in factors your most beloved books: secret passages, magic powers, stormy weather,  plot twists, and even undiscovered worlds. Sure, these things might be interesting, but are these the fiction factors you really remember, or do you remember something else? You can have the best setting, the neatest idea...

I have been on a Joseph Campbell kick for the last year or so. In my research I discovered that George Lucas actually held Joseph Campbell in high regard – as a mentor as a matter of fact. Apparently he consulted a lot with him as wrote the first few movies in the Starwars saga. Here is a link to a site that has a video interview with George Lucas regarding the mythology of Starwars, and how he leveraged...

Here is the sixth and final part of Joseph Campbell’s interviews on th Power of Myth. Get the book The Hero’s Journey. Its a fascinating read. You will likely have to read it more than once. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The Power of Myth: Part 6 – Masks of Eternity", url: "http://easywritingtips.com/2009/05/the-power-of-myth-part-6-masks-of-eternity/" }); Click Here - Share the post!

Here is the fifth part of Joseph Campbell’s interviews on th Power of Myth. Get the book The Hero’s Journey. Its a fascinating read. You will likely have to read it more than once. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The Power of Myth: Part 5 – Love and the Goddess", url: "http://easywritingtips.com/2009/05/the-power-of-myth-part-5-love-and-the-goddess/" }); Click Here - Share the post!

Here is the fourth part of Joseph Campbell’s interviews on th Power of Myth. Get the book The Hero’s Journey. Its a fascinating read. You will likely have to read it more than once. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The Power of Myth: Part 4 – Sacrifice and Bliss", url: "http://easywritingtips.com/2009/05/the-power-of-myth-part-4-sacrifice-and-bliss/" }); Click Here - Share the post!

Here is the third part of Joseph Campbell’s interviews on th Power of Myth. Get the book The Hero’s Journey. Its a fascinating read. You will likely have to read it more than once. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The Power of Myth: Part 3 – The First Storytellers", url: "http://easywritingtips.com/2009/05/the-power-of-myth-part-3-the-first-storytellers/" }); Click Here - Share the post!

Here is the second part of Joseph Campbell’s interviews on th Power of Myth. Get the book The Hero’s Journey. Its a fascinating read. You will likely have to read it more than once. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The Power of Myth: Part 2 – Myth and the Modern World", url: "http://easywritingtips.com/2009/05/the-power-of-myth-part-2-myth-and-the-modern-world/" }); Click Here - Share the...

Joseph Campbell’s work on myth is widely known. Below you fill find a link to his interview series on Myth. I HIGHLY recommend this to any fiction/fantasy writer. I have found his advice to be very powerful. However, don’t take my word for it. Watch the video below. Its almost an hour. Click on the first quadrant of the video in the upper left hand corner of the video player to start it. I highly...