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Storylab: Week 12, TEDed Styles

What Makes a Hero?

  • what do all heroes heroes all have in common
  • their journey is all a common factor
  • the journey is a cycle
  • the journey has key events
  • they have a call to adventure
  • hero needs help 
  • hero crosses the thresh hold 
  • trials occur
  • approach the worst fear
  • crisis occurs, heroes darkest hour
  • reborn
  • treasure, special recognition
  • hero returns to his ordinary world
  • resolution 
  • many journey is very similar amongst all hero stories
  • explains why we read fiction stories
  • fiction stories bring out so many emotions in people
  • descriptive words
  • use metaphors
  • the point is to cast a temporary allusion
  • you want the reader to feel what the character feels
  • fiction should play with the reader's senses
  • each word should cater to a specific sense
  • the goal is to create a world full of senses
  • make unaccepted connotations 

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