Need: an empty inner space, a potential that craves realisation. At the inciting incident, the writer recognises an incompleteness in her protagonist … She therefore needs to complete her humanity.*
Robert McKee

won’t you celebrate with me
what i have shaped into
kind of life? i had no model …
i made it up
here on this bridge between
starshine and clay**
Lucille Clifton

As well as desire, there is also
need – the journey finding us
wanting;
Our urge is to shrink back,
Protecting what we have, but,
We can embrace our want, and
if we do, then
there can be what can only be called
transfiguration.

*Robert McKee’s Character;
**Maria Popova’s Figuring.

The ego is you as you think of yourself. You in relation to all the commitments of your life, as you’ve understood them. The self is the whole range of possibilities that you’ve never even thought of. And you’re stuck with your past when your stuck with your ego.*
Joseph Campbell

We need to have more specialists in spirit who will lead people into self discovery. … We are being called into metamorphosis into a far higher order, and yet we often act only from a tiny portion of ourselves.**
Mr Tayer

The ego misses the possible,
Either because it believes it’s above
the possibility, or it isn’t
good enough;
The humble self that is
Mr Tayer, full of
awe and wonder, knows that
we have no idea what we
are truly capable of, and
opens to discovery.

Check out yesterday’s blog for
a place to begin exploring.

*Joseph Campbell’s The Hero’s Journey;
**Jean Houston’s A Mythic Life.

All he wants to do is draw. He is, thank goodness, unstoppable.*
Jenny Uglow

Desire: a character’s persistent purpose, her unreached goal. Throughout a story’s telling, as the protagonist struggles to put her life back in balance, she pursues her object of desire as far as her emotional and mental powers can reach.**
Robert McKee

All I want to do is dreamwhisper and
doodle –
That about sums it up;
How about you?

I may be able to help you answer this question
with some dreamwhispering, maybe even
some doodling.

I shared recently that I have some places available for early 2024 –
I only work with a few people at a time, on
a one-to-one basis,
And I am now developing this as part of a simple gift economy –
Something I have been pondering for a while now^ –
And it doesn’t matter where you are in the world.

You will identify, or be affirmed in, all of the most important
elements for creating your unfolding story that is about
your truest self and the contribution you want to bring
to others.

Instead of working on the new year’s resolutions,
You could uncover an amazing story:
Just drop me a line to find out more:
geoffreybaines@gmail.com.

*Jenny Uglow’s The Quentin Blake Book, speaking of Blake;
**Robert McKee’s Character;
^If this is for you then I can share more about how this works when you contact me.