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Nov. 6th, 2015 09:13 pm1. Found this on FB:
I don't really agree with most of it. For one thing, I edit as I write. Always have. Also, it works better if you get a professional line editor to edit your work. And seriously, I really wish people would stop thinking all stories must follow the hero's journey. Damn, Joseph Campbell.
The weird thing about Campbell? Is I never heard of him until I went online and joined Buffy fanboards. And I was a mythology major. Of course my advisor was a feminist and apparently didn't like Campbell - she directed me towards Jung, Frazier, Gillian, Neumann, and various others. Now I own all these Campbell books on mythology. He's very mainstream and...well somewhat surface or literal in his interpretations. He completely misses the female's role - her role seems, in his perspective, to be subservient to the male journey, which isn't true. Also he limits his views to Jung and Freud, when it actually is broader than that.
I can see why a lot of folks on some of the Buffy boards that I was on, hated Campbell. Very Western based, with a rather narrow view of the Asian culture. One woman ripped me a new one for daring to discuss Campbell in association with Indonesian Mythology as an analysis of Buffy. I think she over-reacted. As did I at the time. We got into a fight over Campbell on a television show fan board.
She said my posts influenced people and they were dangerous - and misinformative and I needed to be more careful. Seriously? I was writing posts under the name shadowkat67 on a fan board called All Things Philosophical About Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It wasn't like I was on an academic board or a scholarly site. Nor I was making a presentation at an University under my own name, as an expert in the field. It was an internet fan board. Of course, at the time, I wasn't exactly in a rational frame of mind myself. (Most fans aren't actually - the whole mindset of "fan" sort of runs counter to rational thought. You are obsessed. And most likely because you don't want to or can't handle something going on in your life -- and are often using fandom as an outlet or means of distracting yourself from real life crap. But the internet tends to explode this -- because of the instant communication aspects. You can post out of pure emotion, without thinking it through. ) Gotta love the internet.
Anyhow, bloody tired of the hero's journey. I like to play around with it, subvert it a bit. Just because some people want to tell or hear the same stories over and over, doesn't mean we have to, right?
I don't really agree with most of it. For one thing, I edit as I write. Always have. Also, it works better if you get a professional line editor to edit your work. And seriously, I really wish people would stop thinking all stories must follow the hero's journey. Damn, Joseph Campbell.
The weird thing about Campbell? Is I never heard of him until I went online and joined Buffy fanboards. And I was a mythology major. Of course my advisor was a feminist and apparently didn't like Campbell - she directed me towards Jung, Frazier, Gillian, Neumann, and various others. Now I own all these Campbell books on mythology. He's very mainstream and...well somewhat surface or literal in his interpretations. He completely misses the female's role - her role seems, in his perspective, to be subservient to the male journey, which isn't true. Also he limits his views to Jung and Freud, when it actually is broader than that.
I can see why a lot of folks on some of the Buffy boards that I was on, hated Campbell. Very Western based, with a rather narrow view of the Asian culture. One woman ripped me a new one for daring to discuss Campbell in association with Indonesian Mythology as an analysis of Buffy. I think she over-reacted. As did I at the time. We got into a fight over Campbell on a television show fan board.
She said my posts influenced people and they were dangerous - and misinformative and I needed to be more careful. Seriously? I was writing posts under the name shadowkat67 on a fan board called All Things Philosophical About Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It wasn't like I was on an academic board or a scholarly site. Nor I was making a presentation at an University under my own name, as an expert in the field. It was an internet fan board. Of course, at the time, I wasn't exactly in a rational frame of mind myself. (Most fans aren't actually - the whole mindset of "fan" sort of runs counter to rational thought. You are obsessed. And most likely because you don't want to or can't handle something going on in your life -- and are often using fandom as an outlet or means of distracting yourself from real life crap. But the internet tends to explode this -- because of the instant communication aspects. You can post out of pure emotion, without thinking it through. ) Gotta love the internet.
Anyhow, bloody tired of the hero's journey. I like to play around with it, subvert it a bit. Just because some people want to tell or hear the same stories over and over, doesn't mean we have to, right?