Reading for Craft

I wrote a post over at The Enchanted Inkpot the other day titled WISE OLD MAN—CHARACTERS AND CLICHÉ. For it, I dug out a couple of my books on craft, namely THE HERO WITH A THOUSAND FACES by Joseph Campbell and THE WRITER'S JOURNEY by Christopher Vogler. Okay, I watched a couple Star Wars movies, too, but that was sheer good fortune of my kids asking yet again to watch them. Obi Wan and Yoda are definitely nice mentor figures.

Anyway, my point is that while writing the post I realized how long...