A review by michelleful
The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers by Christopher Vogler

5.0

All the while I was reading this book, I was getting all sorts of ideas for how to modify and extend the plot for a story I'm currently working out, and that alone made this book worth the price of admission. It describes several archetypes for characters and how they can combine, and then goes through the stages of the "journey" that that protagonist (and possibly other characters, depending on length and scope) undergoes in the course of a story. The worked-out examples from well-known movies were quite useful.

The book is titled "Writer's Journey" because Vogler wants you to consider your own life as a journey with all these tests and ordeals you have to go through. It sounds a bit wacky and new-agey but I actually found it quite a liberating and inspiring idea, and it helped me get back into another project I'd been procrastinating on for a while. So this book was doubly worth it, in the end! And I think I'll probably skim it again every time I plot out a new story, to glean new ideas.