The Hero’s Journey is essential to a good story, right? How about an epic climax? Five acts? Three? A witty sidekick? What does a story need and what do we modern Westerns think it needs?<\/p>\n
Many of our conventions of story telling are just that, conventions. This episode, Timothy and Nick discuss story conventions past, present, and elsewhere in Story School.<\/p>\n
In the second half, we take on another Take on Tales (literary edition) and return to an old topic in a Previously On… segment.<\/p>\n
You know the drill–listen in, enjoy, tell all your friends. This is your premiere podcast on storytelling, Derailed Trains of Thought.<\/p>\n
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