The Monomyth: A Cat’s Journey

Calling all writer friends! Have you read Joseph Campbell’s Hero With a Thousand Faces and Christopher Vogler’s The Writer’s Journey yet? If not, you should get on that. Mythic structure is a good starting point for novels, especially fantasies, but both authors make the point that myth isn’t just about stories – it’s a guideline for life. Which got me thinking about mythic structure in my own life. Which naturally got me thinking about my cats. A cat’s eye view of the universal journey: It’s an ordinary day in an ordinary world. The sun is shining and the napping is superb. In a few hours, […]

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