Leaving the Ordinary World and Returning with the Elixir

This seminar will be held at WriterHouse on August 8 from 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM.

Description:

Leaving the Ordinary World and Returning with the Elixir is a writing seminar for Novelists, Memoirists, Narrative Nonfiction writers and authors of screen plans and stage plays, based on the universal concept of the Hero’s Journey.  Consider your hero’s initial state of woundedness, incompleteness and unfulfilled potential, “kicking around on a piece of ground in (her) hometown.”  Setting your heroic and authorial sights on the opening of your story and stages of the journey Joseph Campbell pioneered, found in most every tale ever told, can inspire an opening dovetailing with your ending -- thematic and plot points to ponder over three hours on an August Saturday morning, maybe taking you and your hero where you have longed to be. 

About the Instructor:

Ran Henry is a writing professor at the University of Virginia and author of the definitive biography Spurrier: How the Ball Coach Taught the South to Play Football and the forthcoming spiritual true crime book The Preacher: Mother Emanuel Pastor Clementa Pinckney and the Confederate Storm:  He lives atop Afton Mountain with wife Linda, co-owners of Blue Mountain Weddings in Charlottesville.