![]() ![]() Tim used the pressures inherent in his external plot (the second “severing” challenge) to validate the urgency of the meeting and thus, there just isn’t any time for the two of them to travel down memory lane. The scene between Jessie and her brother never devolves into cheesy declarations of love and devotion because the set up of the scene would not allow for that. Tim has withheld so much information from the reader (and Jessie) since the start of the novel that he intuitively recognized the opportunity in this scene to use that exposition as ammunition to push the stakes of the story progressively larger. So when it came time to actually write it, he was more than prepared. ![]() We’ve been talking about this scene since we began work on this new draft almost a year ago. The reason he did so is because he spent a serious amount of time setting it up. In Tim’s case, since his protagonist is female, the meeting comes with a male force, her long lost brother.įor this first crack at the scene, I think Tim did a very good job. The two sides come together and ally to confront a third party antagonist in the ending payoff. ![]() It features what Joseph Campbell called “The Meeting with the Goddess.” In strict “Hero’s Journey” terms, this is the moment in the story when the traditional male heroic figure meets with the other half of his internal being, represented by a powerful female imago. ![]() In this week’s episode of The Story Grid Podcast Tim and I talk about a very big moment in his work in progress. ![]()
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