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Do What’s Necessary · The Daily Writer

• 0:04
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Daily Writer, where we share a lesson each day to help you cultivate the habits for creative success.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you've ever studied story structure or screenwriting, you're probably familiar with a concept called the Hero's Journey.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, the Hero's Journey is a framework used to tell all kinds of different stories, and it shows the progression of the hero, also called the protagonist, through obstacles and struggles all the way to achieve their final victory.
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  SPEAKER_00: Think about any story that you love, whether it's from history or fiction, including novels, movies, or TV shows.
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  SPEAKER_00: The hero has to overcome any number of obstacles on their way to victory.
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  SPEAKER_00: Otherwise, the victory doesn't really mean anything.
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  SPEAKER_00: Even if we limit it to just a world of fiction, think of, for example, Michael Corleone outsmarting Salazzo and Barzini in The Godfather.
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  SPEAKER_00: Think of Frodo solving Gollum's riddles in The Hobbit.
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  SPEAKER_00: Think of Odysseus dealing with the Cyclops and the Sirens in The Odyssey.
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  SPEAKER_00: Think of Ripley outrunning the xenomorph in the movie Alien.
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  SPEAKER_00: Think of Batman tracking down the Joker in The Dark Knight or Meg Ryan overcoming her doubts and confusion on the way to finding true love with Tom Hanks in the movie You've Got Mail from the 90s.
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  SPEAKER_00: So those are just a few examples.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the cool thing is that heroes aren't confined just to movies.
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  SPEAKER_00: Anybody who takes up their pen and writes is also a hero.
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  SPEAKER_00: And every hero has their obstacles.
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  SPEAKER_00: On your way to writing success, you've got obstacles that you have to overcome as well.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you have to do things, sometimes very hard things, in order to overcome those obstacles.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now that might mean writing on your lunch break, writing late at night, or as many others do, writing early in the morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: That was definitely the case for Tony Morrison, who won both the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for her fiction.
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  SPEAKER_00: She once said, writing before dawn became a necessity.
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  SPEAKER_00: I had small children when I first began to write, and I needed to use the time before they said mama.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that was always around five in the morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, this writing journey is not for the faint of heart.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's going to take everything you've got.
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  SPEAKER_00: Are you willing to do what's necessary to get there?
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  SPEAKER_00: Hey, thanks so much for listening to today's episode.
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  SPEAKER_00: For more, you can visit us at dailywriterlife.com.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thanks so much, and I'll see you tomorrow.