Story Trick #4: Refusing the Call

This new installment in the Story Trick series¹ is not even written by me.

For some time I’ve been reading up on Joseph Campell and his Monomyth theory and how it could be applied to modern storytelling. Christopher Vogler² has written an excellent introduction on how to apply it to screenwriting.

Now David Anaxagoras has written a really good article about one of the stages of the monomyth, Refusing the Call.

>>> Read David’s article here

There is no need for me to write about this when David has already written such a good and explanatory article. Be sure to check out some his other articles on his newly launched website. It’s all great stuff.

1. For the rest of the Story Trick articles see #1 on Eastern Promises, #2 on Michael Clayton and #3 about the basic structure beats [↩]
2. His book The Writer’s Journey have just been released in it’s 3rd edition [↩]