Heroine’s Journey for Writers and Creatives
January 25, February 1 and 8
Saturdays, 9 – 11 AM PST
Three 2-hour Sessions
Want to know how to create a heroine’s journey story with the underlying magnetism of its age-old archetypal patterns?
Gather ‘round the hearth fire circle! Listen to tales of the heroine’s journey told in the style of the oral tradition. Respond in your written voice to create new settings, characters, and plots with surprising depth and appeal.
In this exciting, interactive, three-session workshop with Woven founder Kate Farrell we will:
- Explore the unique challenges of the heroine’s journey found in ancient, feminine fairy tales.
- Learn how to use elements of the feminine quest in your creative writing for any genre—fiction, nonfiction, memoir, and more!
- Compare the hero’s and heroine’s journey and discuss three basic benchmarks of the feminine quest in tales that date back millennia to matriarchal cultures:
– Treachery: Entanglements and Jealousies
– Into the Wilderness: Escape and Initiation
– Return: Recognition and Self-Attainment - Tap into the primal Slavic tale, “Baba Yaga & Vasilissa the Brave,” a foundational story. We’ll translate its archaic challenges with prompts and writing exercises. We’ll use the narrative arc of the heroine’s journey, its basic motifs, key characters, and tropes to create a new script.
Registration is limited.
Announcing the launch of a new book by Kate Farrell,
THE FAIRY TALE HEROINE: LIVE AND CREATE HER JOURNEY, with a release date of October 7, 2024, ongoing through 2025
This new book is a nonfiction guide to the heroine’s journey based on ancient tales of the feminine quest. We will explore the characters, the tasks, and the three stages of the heroine’s journey, so familiar to us all, presented in a clear, engaging, interactive format.
THE FAIRY TALE HEROINE grew out of Kate’s memoir in which she braided tales of the feminine quest with her life story. She discovered that most readers did not know the basic elements of the heroine’s journey based on fairy tales. It is with great pleasure that we anticipate following her pathway together on this inclusive platform and share in her heroic successes.
Publishing the book on Substack as a series of posts will provide an exciting interactive process between author and readers: https://farrellk.substack.com/ Subscribe today for weekly posts!