On Writing - The Seven Basic Plots: Voyage and Return Part I

As we continue our exploration of the Seven Basic Plots, we get to the third type: Voyage and Return.
Introduction to the Seven Basic Plots: • On Writing - The Seven...

[@darioscomicschule1111]

Gonna Soak this up on Sunday!

[@darioscomicschool1111]

Finally, the Time to soak it up! I hope this Videos will age like Fine WINE! This is a great Class. Very in deptht. Love it! 15:05 If I did't Care... 21:28 These Feels like Therapy.... A Good one! 37 Minutes went by, like a breeze!

[@justinsmorningcoffee]

Haha awesome!

[@captainnolan5062]

In Stranger Things, they call the alternate world "The Upside Down". Per the Stranger Things Wiki - "The Upside Down" was the main name used to describe a mysterious alternate dimension existing in parallel to the human world."

[@raghavtantry6272]

Pure gold

[@justinsmorningcoffee]

Cool! Thanks for watching! 😁

[@daleplay3167]

Love these videos. Great work!

[@justinsmorningcoffee]

Thanks Dale!

[@ChristopherCopeland]

I am absolutely loving this series. If I may offer one note, please forgive me but I lurch out of flow state each time I hear it: are you intending to use the word “nefar-i-ous” or is “neferous” something I’m not familiar with? Thanks again! Awesome content 🙌

[@justinsmorningcoffee]

Haha thanks man, I appreciate the feedback. Yes, I know I mispronounce it. Somehow as a kid it got lodged in my brain that way and that’s how it comes out when I’m on autopilot. But I’ll make a conscious effort to pronounce it correctly in the future. 😉

[@adwondje4282]

I'm curious to know what is the impact of the will of the protagonist. For Neo per example he's offered the choice at the dream stage; Alice & Dorithy don't have that opportunity which creates different story dynamics

[@justinsmorningcoffee]

Yes, that’s true of Dorothy, although in the Tim Burton version of Alice and Wonderland, she does see a rabbit and chooses to follow it down the rabbit hole, essentially what Neo does when he sees the Rabbit tattoo and chooses to follow it. Of course, the classic Voyage and Return story is the shipwreck story, which is not the choice of the protagonist at all. So you might say that the Tim Burton version of Alice in Wonderland, and the Matrix are importing or borrowing a little bit of the quest motif in the story: putting in a “call” element. Personally, I prefer them to get abducted against their will, as in this is something that is happening *to* them, and not something they are choosing to do: like Cast Away, Shawshank, and Chronicles of Narnia (they are trying to hide and accidentally wind up in Narnia).

[@captainnolan5062]

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