We'll talk more on that some point down the line. On that note, I've also realize that while every story is a Hero's Journey, every story is also a heist. The only way I'll find out why it didn't sell a million copies is by putting it out there and then applying that knowledge to book #2. I have to publish the heist so that I can reconcile where this project will actually fall between the two. #2 is critical because it lets us be objective about our level of craft without getting sad. ' Knowing' that we're different is what allows us to dig in on a long-term project. #1 is the heart of the entrepreneurial spirit. It's my head and I make the rules, got it? If you asked me which one I believe more, I believe both, 100%. it's probably going to sell a couple hundred copies (due to the fact that I'm going to send out a couple hundred individual text messages once its finished, ahem)
The ordinary world series#
once this thing is complete it will go on to sell millions of copies, and probably become a movie, and likely a Netflix series in which I have a cameo that morphs into a recurring guest role. i have two competing thoughts I am finding useful so I thought I'd share: That's probably the most exciting thing in life, knowing there's an adventure ahead. Perhaps you find yourself in an ordinary world again and don't even know it.
You've experienced an ordinary world at least once - life before joining this newsletter. The end of one is the beginning of the next. The ordinary world is not a place we leave once, it's the starting point before every new adventure. Luke Skywalker would still be chilling on that dessert planet, Lonestar would still be cruising the galaxy in the Eagle 5, and I'd still be in 12th grade and would have never been tricked into 'taking pot'. It's the thing the hero would keep doing if not for the story. You can't have an adventure without it, by definition. We're gonna use that project to talk about some stuff over the next bunch of weeks, or until I get bored.īefore any adventure ever takes place there is a status quo. Joseph Campbell 's most famous work, 'The Hero With A Thousand Faces' established the theory of 'The Hero's Journey,' or the 'HJ' as I like to call it for short.Įarlier in the year I tried to recreate the 12 stages of the HJ using Instagram stories and if you ask me - I succeeded.
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