Here are some resources which I have found helpful for this project that I thought I would share with you all.
Chaucer, Geoffrey and D. Laing Purves. The Canterbury Tales. MacMay, 2007. E-book.
I figured the best way to adapt The Canterbury Tales is to actually read the whole thing, which sadly I never did in school. I opted for an
inexpensive Kindle version for convenience. The writing is in more modern English but maintains the rhythm and feel of the original Middle
English text very well.
Hero's Journey Resources
The resources below helped me understand the "hero's journey" structure a little better, since, while I knew of it, I didn't know much about how it worked.
Other Resources
Chaucer, Geoffrey and D. Laing Purves. The Canterbury Tales. MacMay, 2007. E-book.
I figured the best way to adapt The Canterbury Tales is to actually read the whole thing, which sadly I never did in school. I opted for an
inexpensive Kindle version for convenience. The writing is in more modern English but maintains the rhythm and feel of the original Middle
English text very well.
Hero's Journey Resources
The resources below helped me understand the "hero's journey" structure a little better, since, while I knew of it, I didn't know much about how it worked.
- Hero's Journey Scrivener Template - I've been using Scrivener since last year's Camp NaNoWriMo April, and it's actually a fairly useful (if not exactly intuitive) program for organizing your writing. I came across a blog post a while back listing some free templates for Scrivener, and one of them was for the hero's journey model. So I downloaded it. Now at least I have something to use it for! The post also includes links to some other templates, including a template for mystery novels and a couple templates for Randy Ingermanson's famous Snowflake Method.
- The Hero's Journey Outline - This site breaks down the steps of the Hero's Journey in a very understandable way. There is also some information here on archetypes.
- The Hero's Journey Defined - A useful chart by writer Sheila Seifert that gives good explanations of the different steps. She also has an example chart using The Fellowship of the Ring as an example to show the steps in action.
- The 17 Steps of The Hero's Journey - A great blog post from the blog The Odyssey Project that explains the steps, complete with quotes from Joseph Campbell's book The Hero With a Thousand Faces (the source of the method) and literary examples of each step.
Other Resources
- Fantasy Kingdom Name Generator - How I got Itvea's name.
- Robert Lee Brewer's Poetic Asides Blog - A regular feature on WritersDigest.com (and in Writer's Digest the magazine), which I consulted for poetic form ideas.