How Failing to Write Novels Revealed My Life’s Purpose
On the unfinished art of an unfinished life
9 min readAug 14, 2023
I’ll tell you I’m sick of the Hero’s Journey, but I really can’t help being whisked away by it every time. The part that always does it for me is Joseph Campbell’s Step 2: the Call to Adventure. It’s the scene when our hero learns his fate is to embark upon a sacred quest, when she first musters the…
