Christopher Vogler The Writers Journey
give them back in the form of stories that provide guidelines for right living.
W e writers share in the godlike power of the shamans. W e not only travel to
other worlds but create them out of space and time. W h e n we write, we truly travel
to these worlds of our imagination. Anyone who has tried to write seriously knows
this is why we need solitude and concentration. W e are actually traveling to another
time and place.
As writers we travel to other worlds not as mere daydreamers, but as
shamans with the m a g i c power to bottle u p those worlds and bring t h e m back
in the form of stories for others to share. O u r stories have the power to heal, to
make the world new again, to give people metaphors by which they can better
understand their own lives.
W h e n we writers apply the ancient tools of the archetypes and the Hero's
Journey to modern stories, we stand on the shoulders of the mythmakers and
shamans of old
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