The Heroic Hero
Three Saturday classes on the values your hero fights for, the journey they're running, and whether they transcend or fall. March 7, 14, 21.
Welcome into Flight School:
Our Mini-Master Class series on the hero in your creative work is three days away:
Sat, March 7th at 10 a.m. PST
Sat, March 14th at 10 a.m. PST
Sat, March 21st at 10 a.m. PST
All stories have a hero…
…but not all heroes are truly heroic, though marketing and hype often confuse us about this.
Let’s correct this dilemma. In this Master-Mini series, we’ll leap right past hype, fan favorites, and following the crowd and I’ll pass over a few practical, smart and easy tools of discernment. You’ll leave these teachings with a much clearer idea of your hero, the plot they are running in your story, the trajectory of their journey, and as a bonus, a glimpse of what all the other characters around your hero need to do in order to either hinder or help.
Class 1: The Values Your Hero Fights For
Your hero isn’t heroic because they’re brave or strong. They’re heroic because they fight for something that matters.
This class unveils what’s called Value "Progressions that give your story depth and breadth and shows you how to identify exactly what your hero is defending. In this class, you’ll move past superficial outcomes that leave your story reading like a sitcom and elevate it to the highest level of human experience. Transcendence.
Save the Date: This Sat, March 7th at 10 a.m. PST
Class 2: Seven Heroic Journeys
Building out of Class 1, we’ll now map how heroes transform differently across the seven basic plots—a tool that helps writers identify which journey they’re actually writing.
You’ll leave this class with a clear map of the journey your hero is currently on and the one you realize they should be on. And how to correct the problem which is also a fix for your structure challenges.
Save the Date: Sat, March 14th at 10 a.m. PST
Class 3: From Ego to Other.
A truly heroic hero sheds his ego and his inward hungers for a great good. Think Christ. Gandhi. Martin Luther King, Jr. What is the egoic trap your hero is caught in and what’s it going to take to set them free, or if you are writing a tragedy, how can you deepen and complicate that trap.
This class provides brand new teachings I’m eager to share about truly heroic people and those who were the opposite. Marilyn Monroe as a case study and Hitler. And a man who is surprising hero of our time. Pope XXIII. And the surprising reasons why according to a concentration camp survivor who writes about him.
Save the Date: Sat, March 21st at 10 a.m. PST
Looking forward to spending time talking about the most important aspect of anyone’s creative writing life, what makes the hero heroic. I guarantee, you will leave this conversation changed.
🤔 Key question:
What’s your biggest challenge with your hero right now? Get the conversation started by posting your answer in the comment box below. Looking forward to reading, and seeing you on Zoom March 7th!
See you then, Jennifer 🐦⬛
I'm eager to hear about the hero idea applied to memoir writing. Thank you!
The movement from ego toward “other” feels especially compelling, because so many meaningful stories hinge on that quiet internal shift rather than external victory. It sounds like these classes invite writers to ask harder questions about what their characters truly serve, which is often where a story finds its real weight. I’ve been reflecting on something similar — how the most powerful journeys, in fiction and in life, often center on what we’re willing to give ourselves to — if you’d ever like to read along: https://theeternalnowmm.substack.com/p/eternal-love?r=71z4jh