The following is the first installment of a three-part series on the use of myths and archetypes in memoir writing. In this first post of How to Write Your Personal Myth Into Your Memoir, I write about both archetypal patterns in general and about the martyr archetype. In the second post, I write about the orphan and the martyr. In the third post, I write about general considerations of using myths and archetypes. These posts are excerpted from Turning Memories Into Memoirs / A Handbook for Writing Lifestories.
What is your personal myth? Myths are the stories we create to express how we perceive the world and life. How we live our lives is determined by the myths we live by, but our lives also reveal our myths to ourselves and to the world.
What are your myths? Look at your life, at your feelings, at your responses to others. That is where your myths reside! That is where your life as a myth can be found.
In this video, How to Write Your Personal Myth Into Your Memoir Part 1, we talk about how the dominant psychic forces called archetypes, play a powerful role in our lives.
How to Write Your Personal Myth Into Your Memoir Part 1
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