Hello everyone,

This is a one-off creative writing workshop for anyone who'd like to begin writing a new, exciting piece of fiction, with a new female lead using the Heroine's Journey as a guide.

For films, novels, short fiction, and plays, a lot of creative writing groups make use of Joseph Campbell's hero's journey. This is a useful tool sometimes, but it is also hugely limiting when it comes to female characters.

So we're looking now at the Heroine's Journey, as defined by Maureen Murdock and Victoria Lynn Schmidt, still making use of some of Campbell's theories, but crucially departing from them to cover the manifold ways in which female heroic journeys might differ from male ones.

Examples of the heroine's journey (or at least aspects of it) can be found in the writings of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Americanah, The Thing Around Your Neck), Marie Darriouseq (Pig Tales), Kathy Acker…