Welcome to the 5th season of The Write Focus, the podcast for writers of all types, newbies and veterans and everyone in-between. Our FOCUS is productivity, process, craft, and tools.
We are justifiably proud of
achieving this 5th season. We started in 2020, that dreadful year,
so good things do come from bad ones. Apart from our yearly hiatus in the
hectic Decembers, we haven’t missed a weekly episode. This week, we officially
open this season with Episode 198. How is that for meeting deadlines? OOO, OOO,
OOO
We start our 5th
season with the first of the last episodes on the greatest plot structure in
the world, taken from our host M.A. Lee’s craft guide Discovering Plot.
In this episode, we delve into Stages 9 and 10 of the 12-Stage Archetypal Story Pattern.
Stage 9 is the protagonist’s Reward
for surviving the trials and the dark ordeal. Our main characters still have a
difficult journey ahead, yet Stage 9 gives a respite.
Then we descend to Stage 10,
the Road Back, seemingly straightforward but still tricksy, still twisty, still
dangerous.
This wave-like up-and-down
pattern of events all through the Archetypal Story Pattern creates pacing and tension.
The writers offers rewards to keep the readers from tumbling off the journey.
The troubles continue to offer angst and suspense for reader engagement.
Don’t make the mistake of
cheap thrills and unthinking, uncaring sacrifices now that you’ve brought the
reader this far. Love has an emotional reward. Danger and death have
consequences. Justice cannot be totally blind. Not for the reader. AND Not for
us, the satisfied writer who wants to keep writing, not burn out and burn up
our love of story-telling.
TIMINGS
00:00 Welcome
00:39 Introduction
03:03 Stage 9 / Joy after
Darkness
07:44 Ordeal vs. Reward
09:20 The Difficult Reward
11:53 Stage 10 / Driving to
Destiny
13:04 Driving with the Old
Desired Dear
19:28 How to Find the Right
Road Back
25:20 Last Words / Closing
TOTAL TIME = 27:00
Examples from Deathly
Hallows (Harry Potter series), Jane Austen’s Persuasion and Pride
and Prejudice, 13th Warrior by Michael Crichton, The Crown,
Castaway film with Tom Hanks, and Tolkein’s Return of the King.
LINKS
Invocation of Blood, from 13th
Warrior :: https://youtu.be/qQekqWha7fg
Direct Link to the Audio
Direct Link to the Video
Playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXi3M_aM-d7JRRacR_0tlplDqSeHp5c-o
Links to the Ebook
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0838PTN49
https://books2read.com/u/bOJK6K
Link to a paperback 8 x 10
bundle for plot / characters / branding / sentence craft, called Discovering
Your Writing https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08691892S
Trailer https://youtu.be/hTVQn92kNBk
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