(Warning: This post includes spoilers for much of the canon of my fandom choices. Also, OMG, long.)

( Dear Yuletide writer, )

1. I just finished reading Christopher Vogler's The Writer's Journey, which deconstructs Hollywood movies into archetypes and a "mythic" structure. Apart from being wanky and overwritten, it was a really good read. Clearly not something to be taken as gospel (who wants to write stories that are so cookie-cutter?), but I would definitely recommend ( Read more... )