Business Writing Secrets Vol. 1

How to communicate in the business world and what steps you should follow.

Write a Short Book to Launch Your Speaking Business

The myth continues-that a real book must be in print and it must be over 160 pages. Rethink the premier approach: Write a short book to get more bookings, get your word out to thousands, gain credibility, as well as vast virtual promotion and an ongoing increased stream of income.

Hero's Journey - Meeting with the Goddess

The hero encounters a value that drives him to consciously and forcefully enter the world of the antagonism – something he has previously resisted on some level. This value is often outside the hero’s present frame of reference or pattern of behaviour.

So You Need Some Inspiration? Try Some RPC: Risk, Passion and Creativity!

How to release your creativity and get started writing your stories now!

Screenwriting, Screenplays, Monomyth, Hero's Journey

The Monomyth is another term for the Hero’s Journey. The concept derives from the idea that there is, in fact, only one story and that it is retold universally and cross culturally. There are at least 188 stages to this story.

Indian Journalism

New Era of Indian Journalism

Hero's Journey - The Hero, Heroine and The Challenges

The Hero’s Journey is THE template upon which most successful stories and screenplays are built upon. There are at least 188 stages to this journey. This article simply analyses the hero archetype. As a sample, let’s use the Academy Award Winner Best Film 2004 – Million Dollar Baby.

Pitching Your Story Idea or Script to Hollywood

Pitching your Story Idea or Script to Hollywood. If you want it - want it so bad you can taste it - you can make it happen!

Story Structure - The Value of a Shape Shifter

Most successful stories and screenplays include a shape shifter. The shape shifter has many functions including:

Practical Screenwriting: Hero's Journey

Following is a basic deconstruction of Gladiator (Academy Award Winner Best Film, 2000) – from this the value of the Hero's Journey becomes more apparent.

Why Some People Speak More

Let's discover it.

Hero's Journey, Screenwriting, Story Structure - Meeting The Supernatural Aid

One critical element of the Hero’s Journey is the Meeting with the Supernatural Aid. During this stage, it is not uncommon for the Supernatural Aid (or Mentor) to appear (and sometimes disappear) mysteriously in some way. From another perspective, luck plays a significant part in the meeting:

Screenwriting and The Hero's Journey - First Catharsis

The penultimate stage of the standard Hero's Journey is the Master of the Two Worlds (detailed versions include the Afterlife etc...). This stage can also be called the Final Conflict as it is where the hero conquers his or her outer challenge.

The Way We Look at Old Age

How difficult we are making life for old