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An inspiration strikes! Better mark it down or it’ll be gone like all those shower thoughts. Reader is a bit more cheered up after telling Dr. Glass about his worries of not achieving enough as a writer and comparing himself with his cohorts.

A new character shows up! Meet Amadeus who was actually shown in one of my drawing time lapse video. Also, EEG is electroencephalography, for which I spent an entire semester of my Master’s in a lab hopelessly staring at the control panel, applying electrode gel on people’s head, and telling them how to wash their hair in the university bathroom. In was during those times that the concept of Amadeus was born.

A chill night walk back home, during which Reader is once again dwelling in his sentiments.

It’s so rare to find someone who is genuinely interested in the passion you deem rather niche. In full gratitude, you decided to buy him the book. But at that moment, it feels more that the person is gifting you instead.

Reader and Dr. Glass are reading an interesting book in the bookstore. For the record, The Hero With A Thousand Faces definitely couldn’t be finished in a day, let alone before the bookstore closes.

When I first heard of the Hero with A Thousand Faces, it was when I was researching the “Hero’s Journey” framework for writing stories. If you look it up, you can definitely see some informational summaries in articles and YouTube videos.

But when I finally picked up the book and read it myself. The book does not primarily offer a guideline for story-writing. Instead, it is a deep dive into the folklore of different cultures of mankind, leading to the wondering of the existence “collective consciousness”; how many culture’s legends seem to follow a similar journey of personal growth, despite different characters and different settings.