July Meeting | Structure/The Hero’s Journey

ROOM CHANGE FOR THIS MEETING:

NH118 – Same building – other hallway.

The time-honored framework of storytelling, novels, plays, and movies from Homer to Stephen King.  There is a methodology to the framing of literature. This talk will concentrate on the building of tension. and the Hero’s journey whether it is Frodo Baggins, Indiana Jones, or Jason and the Argonauts. There are several structures used to accomplish this journey. We will review some of the more popular ones in the time we have.

Speaker Bio

Tulsa NightWriters Hall of Fame Member, Bill Wetterman, is an author of Thrillers and Christian non-fiction. He is a speaker, trainer, editor, and publisher. He won the Mystery, Suspense, Thriller contest at OWFI in 2011 and placed in the top seven in the Writer’s Digest and Armchair Interviews Short Story competitions, where over 11,000 entries were judged. Bill has also won several Flash Fiction contests.