WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Sam@Taking on a World of Words. To play, answer the three ‘W’ questions listed below. Be sure to link back to her or to put the link to your post in the comment section of her blog so that others take a gander at your answers and […]
*The Illusion of a Perfect World- the Heroine is living with a false sense of security and is trapped in a world where she is denied her power. Often, our Heroine uses some sort of coping strategy to deal with (or deny) the suppression of the world she lives in. *Betrayal/Realization- the Heroine faces […]
Cover Reveal: Yellow Locust by Justin Joschko with Giveaway Hello Readers! Welcome to the Cover Reveal for Yellow Locust by Justin Joschko presented by Month9Books! Celebrate this reveal by entering the giveaway found at the end of the post! Selena Flood is a fighter of preternatural talent. But not even […]
A Bear’s Life by Nicholas Read A Bear’s Life by Nicholas Read is the second book in the My Great Bear Rainforest series. Full of beautiful photographs, and fun facts about the bears and other wildlife of the rainforest, this book will teach young readers all about the daily life and behaviour of the bears. […]
In the last post, I laid out the basics of the Heroine’s Journey. What follows here is Christopher Vogler’s variation. *Ordinary World- this is where the journey begins, usually from some sort of subtle or overt imprisonment. The Heroine is trapped by the strictures of society and culture, whether she realizes it fully at […]
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted by The Artsy Reader Girl. Every week has a different topic. Check it out! This week’s theme is: Books On My Spring TBR. I consider spring from March to May, so I’ll likely not get all of my hopefuls read. These 10 are books I want to read, not […]
Murdock sees the Heroine’s Journey as a process of individuation. This is another concept of Jungian archetypal psychology. Individuation is the process whereby a person integrates the various parts of themselves through successful resolution of inner conflicts. In short…the psychologist’s answer to spiritual alchemy. ***Here is a neat Youtube link about the process of individuation […]
Archetypes Before we go any further, I wish to stress that, while ‘Heroine’ is generally regarded as feminine and ‘Hero’ is generally regarded as masculine, it is quite possible to have a female ‘Hero’ and a male ‘Heroine’. For myself, I find these two particular terms to be rather labelling and would prefer not to […]
My goal, over the next few weeks, is to introduce you to the Heroine archetype, the Heroine’s Journey and a selection of heroines the world over, from the most ancient to the most modern. As with a great many things, this is just one perspective. If you find it useful, that is awesome. I’ve done […]
I found this tag on Bookmark Your Thoughts and it looked fun so I stole it. Da Rules Choose 5 books! Randomly set up your books in order. Flip to a random page in the book and write the first two names you see. Put the names in the categories listed below in the […]
