Congratulations to Naomi Treece for being the first member to complete the Hero\u2019s Journey! The Academy has offered a weekly writers\u2019 workshop to members, using the work of author and professor Joseph Campbell to navigate the process of crafting a story that casts the writer as the hero of her own story. While fiction, Naomi\u2019s story is deeply personal and uses metaphor to touch on aspects of her own experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The task of defining oneself as the hero proved to be challenging for many of the writers, which is exactly why we thought this was an important project to take on. In Naomi\u2019s story \u201cFernando, Ready for Adventure,\u201d her hero, Fernando, is a Bengal tiger seeking freedom from captivity. Like all hero\u2019s journeys, Fernando is tested by challenges and ordeals before triumphing in his adventure. Of the process, Naomi had this to say:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis Writer\u2019s Workshop was very meaningful to me personally. It took a lot of personal growth to complete my short story which was a fictional representation of my life thus far. It was dealing with the past, with head held high and facing the future. It was truly a Hero\u2019s Journey!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Congratulations to Naomi Treece for being the first member to complete the Hero\u2019s Journey! The Academy has offered a weekly writers\u2019 workshop to members, using the work of author and…","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1700,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[132,184],"class_list":["post-1079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-member-stories","tag-naomi-treece","tag-writers-workshop"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.academysrq.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.academysrq.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.academysrq.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.academysrq.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.academysrq.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.academysrq.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.academysrq.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.academysrq.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.academysrq.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.academysrq.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}