Podcast: Reckless Creatives
Scott Myers: It’s time to shun the should.
Scott Myers: It’s time to shun the should.
Recently, I was invited to appear on the Reckless Creatives podcast.
Hosts Sadie Dean and Jeanne Veillette Bowerman share the candid truth about the challenges and benefits of living life as artists, striving for freedom to create in any medium, even ones you never thought of before.
Reckless Creatives is the Pipeline Artists original podcast about nothing and everything. Think of us as Michael Bay, but with action items that don’t explode.
Jeanne, Sadie, and I had a wide-ranging conversation covering lots of territory including:
- The origins of The Protagonist’s Journey, a twenty-one month odyssey resulting in a 100,000 word book
- The most common narrative archetype: the Unity arc
- Carl Jung’s theory of individuation and its relevance to storytelling
- Five primary character archetypes: Protagonist, Nemesis, Attractor, Mentor, Trickster
- A six stage process of breaking story: Indirect and Direct Engagement Exercises
- Character as Care | Actor: How we make the audience care about story
- The screenplay universe comprised of two worlds: The External World (Plotline) and Internal World (Themeline)
- “Who are you?”: The existential question of every story
- The Hero’s Journey as shunning the should
- Narrative Imperative: The journey the Protagonist takes is the journey they need to take
- Subplot = Relationship
- Character development as therapy sessions
- A great exercise: Switch Protagonists
- Finding the humanity in the Nemesis
- Jung’s concept of the shadow
Here you go!
Scott Myers: It's Time to Shun the Should - Reckless Creatives
Sadie Dean and Jeanne Veillette Bowerman have an in-depth talk with the amazing Scott Myers about his new book, The…
By the way, Sadie provides the music intro and outro for the podcast.
Thanks, Jeannie and Sadie, for the opportunity to talk character-driven storytelling!
For more Reckless Creatives podcast episodes, go here.
Twitter: @recklesscr8tive.
My book The Protagonist’s Journey: An Introduction to Character-Driven Screenwriting and Storytelling is an Amazon #1 Best Seller in Film and Television. Endorsed by over thirty professional screenwriters, novelists, and academics, you may purchase it here.