On Story Arcs

A lot happened in yesterday’s Comix Coven… the session started out with different story arc possibilities. I added the Heroine’s Journey (I“m reading Mauren Murdock’s classic 1990 book of the same name) with what that arc might look like. It’s particularly appropriate to my own project.

Of course it’s important to understand your family of origin. And, at some point, you just have to take responsibility for your own life. I think this project around my mother’s journey is giving me permission to reconcile with her fully. I just wish she was still around to talk to about it. But that’s the point, isn’t it… If she was, we/I wouldn’t get here.

Update, 23 February: I should point out that Maureen Murdock’s own diagram of the heroine’s journey is a circle, with stops along the way that include a redefinition of self. But this seems to me to be more of an inward spiral than a circle. What I’ve drawn is more like an outward spiral ending in a line, like a snail. However we conceptualize these potential story arcs (and however much fun it is to do so), I’m guessing they look different for every individual, and might even look different for the same individual at different points in time.