Self), which will occur during the Road of Trials and beyond.

One element of the Belly of the Whale stage of the Hero's Journey, is the denial of an option to return to the Ordinary World and the Ordinary Self. Beyond this point, there is No Going Back.

In The Matrix (1999), Neo has a choice between the red and blue pills.

In Butch Cassi

The Hero's Journey (also known as the Monomyth) is the template upon which the vast majority of successful stories and Hollywood blockbusters are based upon. It is upon this structure that situations are superimposed. This is why stories such as Alien (1979), Gladiator (2000), Godfather (1972), American Beauty (1999), Annie Hall (1977) and many others (all deconstructed at www.clickok.co.uk/index4.html) appear to be different but are all constructed, almost sequence by sequence, in the same way.

The following blockbusters have all been structured around the Hero's Journey template: Titanic, 1997 - grossed over $600,000,000; Star Wars, 1977 - grossed over $460,000,000; Shrek 2, 2004 - grossed over $436,000,000; ET, 1982 - grossed over $434,000,000; Spiderman, 2002 - grossed over $432,000,000. So how come you don't know it inside out?

For a number of very valid reasons, if you want to write (and sell) successful stories, whether they're Hollywood blockbusters, Indie successes, novels or other story forms, you need to master the Hero's Journey in a very detailed way...

PAST THE BELLY OF THE WHALE, THERE IS NO GOING BACK

The Belly of the Whale is a form of Netherworld, a place of transit. The Hero is past his (or her) Old Self (following the Transformations that have been engaged in, in the First Threshold), yet s/he has not embarked upon the deeper Transformations (that lead to the New Self), which will occur during the Road of Trials and beyond.

One element of the Belly of the Whale stage of the Hero's Journey, is the denial of an option to return to the Ordinary World and the Ordinary Self. Beyond this point, there is No Going Back.

In The Matrix (1999), Neo has a choice between the red and blue pills.

In Butch Cassid

l deconstructed at www.clickok.co.uk/index4.html) appear to be different but are all constructed, almost sequence by sequence, in the same way.

The following blockbusters have all been structured around the Hero's Journey template: Titanic, 1997 - grossed over $600,000,000; Star Wars, 1977 - grossed over $460,000,000; Shrek 2, 2004 - grossed over $436,000,000; ET, 1982 - grossed over $434,000,000; Spiderman, 2002 - grossed over $432,000,000. So how come you don't know it inside out?

For a number of very valid reasons, if you want to write (and sell) successful stories, whether they're Hollywood blockbusters, Indie successes, novels or other story forms, you need to master the Hero's Journey in a very detailed way...

PAST THE BELLY OF THE WHALE, THERE IS NO GOING BACK

The Belly of the Whale is a form of Netherworld, a place of transit. The Hero is past his (or her) Old Self (following the Transformations that have been engaged in, in the First Threshold), yet s/he has not embarked upon the deeper Transformations (that lead to the New Self), which will occur during the Road of Trials and beyond.

One element of the Belly of the Whale stage of the Hero's Journey, is the denial of an option to return to the Ordinary World and the Ordinary Self. Beyond this point, there is No Going Back.

In The Matrix (1999), Neo has a choice between the red and blue pills.

In Butch Cassi

6,000,000; ET, 1982 - grossed over $434,000,000; Spiderman, 2002 - grossed over $432,000,000. So how come you don't know it inside out?

For a number of very valid reasons, if you want to write (and sell) successful stories, whether they're Hollywood blockbusters, Indie successes, novels or other story forms, you need to master the Hero's Journey in a very detailed way...

PAST THE BELLY OF THE WHALE, THERE IS NO GOING BACK

The Belly of the Whale is a form of Netherworld, a place of transit. The Hero is past his (or her) Old Self (following the Transformations that have been engaged in, in the First Threshold), yet s/he has not embarked upon the deeper Transformations (that lead to the New Self), which will occur during the Road of Trials and beyond.

One element of the Belly of the Whale stage of the Hero's Journey, is the denial of an option to return to the Ordinary World and the Ordinary Self. Beyond this point, there is No Going Back.

In The Matrix (1999), Neo has a choice between the red and blue pills.

In Butch Cassi

a very detailed way...

PAST THE BELLY OF THE WHALE, THERE IS NO GOING BACK

The Belly of the Whale is a form of Netherworld, a place of transit. The Hero is past his (or her) Old Self (following the Transformations that have been engaged in, in the First Threshold), yet s/he has not embarked upon the deeper Transformations (that lead to the New Self), which will occur during the Road of Trials and beyond.

One element of the Belly of the Whale stage of the Hero's Journey, is the denial of an option to return to the Ordinary World and the Ordinary Self. Beyond this point, there is No Going Back.

In The Matrix (1999), Neo has a choice between the red and blue pills.

In Butch Cassi

Self), which will occur during the Road of Trials and beyond.

One element of the Belly of the Whale stage of the Hero's Journey, is the denial of an option to return to the Ordinary World and the Ordinary Self. Beyond this point, there is No Going Back.

In The Matrix (1999), Neo has a choice between the red and blue pills.

In Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), Butch and Sundance learn that the posse is ordered not to stop until they are dead.

In Brokeback Mountain (2005), once Ennis and Jack Twist have had sex, there is no way back. It is something that cannot be undone.